Transcription Homework
Summary of Assignment
Shown Below: From Language Files 9 p. 64 Exercises 5, 6, 7. And from the website linked below: Outer Yuccan listening exercise.
A note on the easiest ways to use phonetic symbols in preparing this assignment:
a) If you want to type this, this IPA chart website might be very helpful for 'typing' IPA symbols. Click(click), copy, paste. Or for just typing in a doc: on a Mac the Phonetic Alphabet in the Character Viewer is helpful [Keyboard preferences: "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar;" then from menu bar select "Show Emojis and Symbols; customize with gear at upper left; add Phonetic Alphabet and the select it for choices. Double click symbol to insert.If you must use Google docs, please only send me a pdf; not a link to the Google doc. Note USC provides Microsoft Word to you for free!b) Alternatively, you may write this out by hand on a piece of paper to turn in (I suggest writing with something erasable, and please write large).Hint: You will need to work through this assignment aloud to do it correctly.
A note: for our purposes in this assignment, [r] = [ɹ] , [y] = [j], and [ɾ ] = a short [d] (sometimes called a 'flap' or a 'tap.'
• Exercise 5 Write in English orthography the words transcribed in IPA below. (Item a is done for you as an example).
Note that [ɾ] (like in question b) = a short [d] and [r] = [ɹ]. Recall that the vertical stroke under a consonant means that that consonant forms its own syllable; it is 'syllabic.'
a. [sloʊp] slope
b. [bjudi] or [bjuɾi]
c. [sɔɪl]
d. [wɔɹm] or [waɹm]
e. [ɹut]
f. [liʒɹ̩]
g. [sɹ̩tʃt]
h. [krud]
i. [ɹɪdʒ]
j. [ɹitʃ]
k. [peɪn]
l. [wɛnzdeɪ]
m. [kanʃəs]
n. [θaʊzn̩d]
o. [fədʒ]
p. [kaɪt]
q. [kɹaʊd]
r. [ɹat]
s. [kɔɹl̩]
t. [ɹɪtʃ]
• Exercise 6: Transcribe the following words. The first one is given as an example.
I recommend that you pronounce each word slowly aloud.
• Exercise 7 For each orthographic word shown, correct the mistakes in the phonetic transcriptions, if there is a mistake. If no mistake, note that.
• Listening Transcription Exercise: Click here to access the Outer Yuccan portion of the Transcription Homework (courtesy of Louis Goldstein and Peter Ladefoged). READ THE BELOW FIRST:
Do PART 1 ONLY. NOTE that C means that position is a Consonant; V means that position is a Vowel.
I suggest wearing headphones. No diacritics are expected for the Listening Transcription Exercise. I suggest doing this on scratch paper and then when you are done, producing a final version of your transcription to turn in.