Transcription Practice: English Dialects and Allophones
Linguistics 103
Bruce Hayes
UCLA
The task here is hearing distinctions in English that are unlikely to be phonemic for you, either because they are free-variation allophones or because they occur in a faraway dialect.
Multiple choice: order given, or reverse order. Click "Answer" to see if you were right.
| Orthography | Transcription (not necessarily order given) | Answer | |
| 1. | mice | |
answer |
| 2. | man | |
answer |
| 3. | cue | |
answer |
| 4. | slowness/Sloane-ess "female person from Sloane" | |
answer |
| 5. | wail/whale | |
answer |
| 6. | ma/maw | |
answer |
| 7. | freeze | |
answer |
| 8. | hunter | |
answer |
| 9. | cup | |
answer |
| 10. | oncology | |
answer |
| 11. | something | |
answer |
| 12. | ferry/fairy | |
answer |
| 13. | carry/Kerry | |
answer |
| 14. | save/safe | |
answer |
| 15. | tree | |
answer |
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