Correction of the First Year LMD Phonetics Exam-1st Term

Department CORRECTON OF THE FIRST TERM PHONETICS EXAM

Exercise 1: Drawing the cardinal vowel chart and indicating on it the correct places for the

(2 pts)

following English vowels:

1- //

2- //

3- //

Front

Centre

4- //

Back

Close

//

// Mid-close

0.5 pts For each vowel

//

Mid-open

. //

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Open

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Diagram: Some Pure Vowels Represented in the Cardinal Vowel Quadrilateral Chart

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Exercise 2: Writing the phonetic symbols for the vowels in the following words:

1- Bread

/

4- Rough

/

7- Through //

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2- Good //

3- Food

//

5- Won /6- Could //  0.5 pts 8- Maths //

Exercise 3: Illustrating the opposition // and // with five minimal pairs:

1- Fat

Feet

2- Man

Mean

3- Sat

Seat

4- Hat

Heat

5- Pal

Peel

(4 pts)

1 pts For each correct pair

For each symbol

(5 pts)

Department

Exercise 4: classifying the words according to their pronunciation (in the next table):

Piece, quality, minute, said, head, build, plan, sun, fun, what.

(5 pts)

0.5 pts For each correct word

//

//

//

//

//

//

Piece

Minute

Said

Plan

Fun

Quality

Build

Head

Sun

What

Exercise 5: identifying the vowel sounds in each example (writing the symbol of

(4 pts)

the vowel identified between slashes)

position. The lips are slightly rounded.

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What /  / this short vowel is articulated with the back of the tongue is in the fully open

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Cut /  / this short vowel is articulated with the centre of the tongue is raised above the open

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/English

position. The is no contact between the tongue and the upper molars.

Sport /  / this long vowel is articulated with the back of the tongue. The tongue is raised between the mid-close and the mid-open positions. The lips are in a medium lip-rounding.