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LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 1 January 2024 LING 100
Phonetics
The first 5 questions
(1. Transcription, 2. IPA Symbols, 3. Sound Differences for Words, 4. Parameter differences Signs, 5. You own examples) are required to be completed and submitted online before Friday January 26 at 9am. There are some further exercises that you can try, but are NOT required. However, these questions give you a sense of what sorts of questions you could get on an exam or quiz. BUT you will not be asked to rely on your own pronunciation for any quiz or exam. Before you start the exercises, you should know that you will likely need to use: •
eNunciate! sound charts: https://enunciate.arts.ubc.ca/linguistics/world-sounds/ to find and listen to speech sounds •
IPA online keyboard: https://westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard/ for transcriptions, as many IPA symbols are difficult to get on the keyboard
Tutorial Exercises: Required Questions 1.
Transcribe your name In the space below try to transcribe your name into the IPA symbols. You may not have all the symbols that you need to do so based on the English IPA, so you should go to the eNunciate! charts and listen to the different sounds on those to be able to transcribe your name. In tutorials, we will ask you go over your transcriptions with a partner and refine them. It is up to you if you would like to transcribe your first, middle (if you have one and would like to share it) and last name. You are only required to provide your first name. My name is: ______________________________________________________ NOTE: Get used to using and seeing brackets when you are transcribing. In exams, you will lose marks for not using brackets or using the incorrect brackets.
At this point we only know that [ ] represents a phonetic transcription, but next week we will learn about other brackets to use. 2.
Which one does not belong? Each of the following consists of members of a class of sounds that all share one or more common properties (meaning that they have the same parameter), plus one sound that is not a member of that class (meaning that it does not have that parameter). Identify the sound that does not belong to the class and name the descriptive parameter that defines the class of sounds.
E.g. [o], [u], [i], [y] = [i] does not belong to the class of rounded vowels a.
[p], [m], [θ], [b] =
LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 2 January 2024 b.
[z], [v], [s], [ʒ], [g] = c.
[æ] [u], [i], [e], [ɛ] = d.
[ŋ], [g], [w], [t], [d] = e.
[u], [æ], [i], [ɪ], [ʊ] = 3.
How do these words differ? You are given pairs of words in a language that is not English. We provided the orthography (where appropriate), meaning, and IPA transcription. You will need to identify at least one difference
between the words and describe the parameter(s)
that those sounds differ by. We will stick to IPA symbols that you know from North American English for the actual answers. However, you may see some IPA symbols that you don’t know. For those IPA symbols we will give the description, but you don’t need to know them. e.g., French (Indo-European): boue
[bu] “mud” vs coup [ku]
“blow” difference: differs by the first consonant ([b] vs [k]) parameters: voicing ([b] is voiced, [k] is voiceless) place ([b] is bilabial, [k] is velar) i.
Wolof (Niger-Congo) foyi [foji]
“to go play”
vs foye
[foje] “to play with”
difference(s): parameter(s)
LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 3 January 2024 ii.
SENĆOŦEN or Saanich (Salish):
[ʔíʔt
̕
θ
əŋ] “getting dressed” vs [héʔt
̕
θ
əŋ] “breathing” Note: The [ ́
] on [i] and [e] indicates a high tone (pitch difference) and [t
̕
θ
] represents a glottalized dental affricate.
difference(s): parameter(s) iii.
Khmer (Austroasiatic) បu
iន
[pen] “skillful”
vs បu
iង
[pəŋ] “breechcloth” difference(s): parameter(s) 4.
How do these signs differ? Each of the following pairs of signs differ by only one parameter
. Decide which parameter the signs differ by and explain how you can see this. e.g., American Sign Language (French Sign Language) Parameters: handshape Difference: candy has an extended finger, apple had one finger bent, nerve had two fingers bent
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LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 4 January 2024 a.
British Sign Language (BANZSL) Parameter: Difference: b.
Israeli Sign Language (German Sign Language) Parameter: Difference:
LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 5 January 2024 c.
American Sign Language (French Sign Language) Parameter: Difference: 5.
Finding your own examples! a.
Using your own knowledge of languages, find a pair of words that differ by one sound and explain the parameter(s) that is differs by. You can do this in ANY language (including English). e.g., Japanese: [noɾi] “seaweed” vs [toɾi] “bird” difference(s): differs by the first consonant [n] vs [t] parameter(s): differs by voicing ([t] is voiceless, [n] is voiced) & manner ([t] is a plosive, [n] is a nasal stop) language: transcription:
LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 6 January 2024 difference(s): parameter(s): b.
Doing some research online, find a pair of words in a signed language that differ by one parameter and describe how you can see the difference. Include an image of how the two signs differ and learn the two signs yourself. Your TA might ask you to demonstrate in tutorial. Parameter: Difference: Image:
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LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 7 January 2024 If there is time… (NOT REQUIRED) I.
Practice with identifying sounds At the beginning of the chapter in Yule (2017), there is a poem (given below), which
discusses the difference between sounds and letters. Answer the following questions below,
based on the poem. 1. “I take it you know 2. Of tough and bough and cough and dough? 3. Other may stumble but not you 4. Oh hiccough, thorough, lough, and through. 5. Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, 6. To learn of less familiar traps? 7. Beware of heard, a dreadful word, 8. That looks like beard and sounds like bird. 9. And dead, it’s said like bed, not bead- 10. For goodness sake don’t call it “deed”! 11. Watch out for meat and great and threat 12. (The rhyme with suite and straight and debt). T.S.W. quoted in Mackay (1970) as cited in Yule (2017) a. Explain why the words at the end of line 2 and 4 are used over the other possible words in those lines. b. Transcribe the words that are underlined and put them into groups of rhyming words. c. Do all of the words that are said to rhyme in lines 7 – 12, rhyme for you? II.
Reading transcriptions Can you decipher what is happening in this scene from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban?
[gɹɪ.fɪn.dɔɹ wəɹ nɑt aʊt əv ðə ɹʌ.nɪŋ æf.təɹ ɑl, ɑl.ðoʊ ðeɪ kʊd nɑt ə.fɔɹd tu luz ə.nʌ.ðəɹ mætʃ wʊd bi.keɪm ɹi.poʊ.zɛst əv hɪz mæ.nɪk ɛ.nəɹ.dʒi, ænd wəɹkt hɪz tim æz hɑɹd æz ɛ.vəɹ ɪn ðə tʃɪ.li heɪz əv ɹeɪn ðæt pəɹ.sɪ.stɪd ɪn.tu də.sɛm.bəɹ] III.
Practice recognising parameter differences for signs Go to one of the ASL sites linked on canvas and choose two signs. Write down what differences you think they have and be specific. IV.
Practice with reading transcription What English words do the following IPA transcriptions correspond to? a. [pʰoʊni] = b. [ɑbʤεkt] = c. [wʌnz] =
LING 100 Tutorial Week 3 8 January 2024 d. [liʒəɹ] = e. [raɪt] = f. [tub] = g. [juz] = V.
Practice with transcription Transcribe the following English words in the IPA. If you’re not a native speaker of English, you may want to ask a friend who is to pronounce the words for you. a. strength = b. wreath = c. showed = d. exist = VI.
How do these words differ? You are given English words in orthography (spelled) below, you need to first transcribe the words into IPA. Then you will need to identify at least one difference between the words and describe the parameter(s) that it differs by. Depending on your variety there could be more than one difference.
e.g., skip
vs skim
transcription: [skɪp] vs [skim] difference(s): differs by the final consonant [p] vs [m] parameter(s): differs by voicing ([p] is voiceless, [m] is voiced) & manner ([p] is a plosive, [m] is a stop) i.
lace vs loose transcription (remember brackets): difference(s): parameter(s): ii.
ache vs aim transcription (remember brackets): difference(s): parameter(s): iii.
house (noun)
vs house (verb)
transcription (remember brackets): difference(s): parameter(s):