Spectrogram Reading Practice

Linguistics 103
Bruce Hayes
UCLA


These spectrograms are nonsense sentences, with several minimal pairs; reading them is a "multiple choice question".

If you want to start out with easier ones, click here.

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Spectrogram #1

This says some combination of
We sue the bowl to win boons
saw goal bin beans

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Spectrogram #2

This says some combination of

Fuzzy lags rebel rubber rats
Fussy labs repel rugger routes

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Spectrogram #3

This says some combination of
The outer dill lames Roe
Ider gill names woe

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