Using the IPA, please phonetically transcribe the following passages as they are pronounced in
the audio file “Assignment-2-Audio.m4a”.
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of
the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
“‘It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,’ he said. ‘Have you thought
of going into teaching?’”
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2
Please show how our syllabification algorithm syllabifies each of the following words.
Note: You do not have to show the individual steps in the syllabification process, only the final
output of the algorithm, including the nuclei, onsets, codas, rhymes, and syllables.
Examples: “cookies” → σ
O
[k
R
N
ʊ
σ
O
k
R
N
i
C
z]
a) [ætɹɪbjut]
b) [əta͜ɪəɹ]
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c) [ɪŋklɪŋ]
d) [ɑɹθɹa͜ɪtɪs]
e) [ɛksplo͜ʊʒən]
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3
For each of the following lists of sounds, state which articulatory property or combination of
properties the sounds in that list have in common that no other sound in Standard American
English shares. For example, if the list were “[p], [b], [m], [t], [d], [n], [ɾ], [k], [ɡ], [ŋ], [ʔ]”, the answer
would be “stop”, because these sounds are all stops, and there are no other stops in Standard
American English besides these.
a) [k], [ŋ], [ɡ]
b) [h], [k], [θ], [t], [p], [s], [f], [ʃ], [ʔ]
c) [t], [d], [s], [z], [ɹ], [l]
d) [b], [m]
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Sample Solution