Anlise e Prtica Pronncia em

Ingls
Prof. Dra. Deusa Maria de Souza
Pinheiros Passos
USP - 2013
THE REVIEW GAME
By Mrcia F. Negromonte Kinj
USP number: 8025663
Question 01
How can you tell the number of
syllables in a word?
Answer to question 01
By counting the number of
pronounced vowels it has.
Question 02
How many plosive consonants
are there in the English
language?
Answer to question 02
The English Language has six plosive
consonants: p t k b d g
Question 03
How many fricative consonants
are there in the English
language?
Answer to question 03
There are nine fricative consonants:
f v s z h
Question 04
Which of the plosives below
are alveolar?
A) t
B) g
C) d
Answer to question 04
t
and
d
Question 05
Can you think of a word which has the
following sounds:
an initial voiceless labiodental,
a medial voiceless alveolar fricative
and a final voiceless alveolar plosive?
Answer to question 05
forced /frst/;
forest /frest/;
foresight /frsat/or /f:sat/
(among others)
Question 06
In English, the voiceless affricate
sound may be represented in five
different ways, either by letters,
clusters or other combinations of
letters. Provide one example of each:
Answer to question 06
chair, teacher, cheese
watch, fetch, witch
Natural, Picture, Statue
Suggestion, question
Concerto, cello
Question 07
In one of the groups of words below, one
word does not have any affricate sounds.
Which group is it?
A) Jail, Agent, Knowledge
B) Educated, Genre, General
C) Soldier, Biology, witch
Answer to question 07
group B, and the word is Genre
/nr/
Question 08
In English, different letters may represent
the same sound. Provide at least three
words where the same sound is spelled
differently.
Answer to question 08
two, through, threw, clue, shoe; or
physics, fist, rough, cuff
Question 09
In English, the same letter may represent
different sounds. Provide at least three
words to illustrate the statement above.
Answer to question 09
The letter a in cake, mat, call,
any, sofa;
the letter s in see, sure, pleasure,
resign;
the letter c in cat and practice.
Question 10
Provide three words where there
are letters which do not represent
any sound.
Answer to question 10
Comb, cake, pneumonia, knee,
though, debt, receipt, hour
Question 11
The statements below about the word
pragmatic are all correct, except for:
a) It has an initial voiced bilabial plosive
b) It has a medial voiced velar plosive
c) It has a medial voiceless alveolar plosive
d) It has three voiceless plosives
Answer to question 11
a
Question 12
In one of the words below there are no
voiceless sounds. Which one is it?
a) Blush
b) Bruise
c) Brunette
d) Brunch
Answer to question 12
b
Question 13
How many different pronunciations are
there for the letter combination ough in
the verses below?
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
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Answer to question 13
six different pronunciations:
/ba/; /kof/; /tf/; /d/;
/hik.p/; /ru:/
Question 14
All the words below have one syllable
except for
A) Naked
B) Stopped
C) Faced
D) Worked
Answer to question 14
Naked
Question 15
Provide the respective number of syllables
in the words below:
A) Cartilage
B) Between
C) Writes
D) Apologizes
Answer to question 15
Cartilage: 3 syllables
Between: 2 syllables
Writes: 1 syllable
Apologizes: 5 syllables
Question 16
What do the following words have in
common?
A) Wretched
B) Allegedly
C) Cross-legged
D) Crooked
Answer to question 16
The terminal ed is pronounced as /d/
Question 17
Spell the words symbolized by the groups of
phonemes below. Write them on the board then
read them out loud.
A) /nnu:zi:stkli:/
B) /tu:ek/
Answer to question 17
A) unenthusiastically;
B) toothache.
Question 18
Identify the names of the 10 famous
characters transcribed in the following list:
Question 18
1. kwzmodo
2. drnre
3. denr
4. rlkhomz
5. dzdmon
6. hrptr
7. romo
8. sndrl
9. drkjlr
10. dnkhot
Answer to Question 18
1. Quasimodo
2. Dorian Gray
3. Jane Eyre
4. Sherlock Homes
5. Desdemona
6. Harry Potter
7. Romeo
8. Cinderella
9. Dracula
10. Don Quixote
Question 19
Provide an example of a word with
three phonemes, according to the
following phonetic description:
1st phoneme: a bilabial consonant
2nd phoneme: a diphthong
3rd phoneme: a velar consonant
Answer to question 19
/bek/ = bake
/mek/= make
/pok/= poke
Question 20
How many syllables are there in each
sentence below?
A) Hes so excited about it!
B) Ive got no idea.
C) Are you worried?
D) Whys Ernest leaving on Wednesday?
Answer to question 20
A) Eight
B) Six
C) Four
D) Eight
Question 21
In one of the words below, the letter s is
pronounced as /s/. Which one is it?
A) rise
B) dies
C) eyes
D) precise
Answer to question 21
precise
(the s in the other words is pronounced as /z/)
Question 22
How would you transcribe the <s> endings in the
text below?
Joans dog is a Labrador. Its such a nice pet that
she takes him wherever she goes. Every
morning, before she finishes her coffee, Jewels
starts barking. Then, Joan patiently picks up her
sun glasses, puts Jewels on a leash and out they
go towards the river banks.
Answer to question 22
/z/; /z/; /s/;
/s/; /z/;
/z/; /z/; /s/;
/s/;
/s/; /s/; /z/;
/z/; /s/
Question 23: How would you transcribe the <ed> endings
below?
Valentina wanted to go surfing but all she managed was to
feel happy she didnt. As soon as she stepped on her
surfboard, the undertow dragged it while a gigantic wave
wiped her off the surfboard. She felt as if she had been
swallowed by Poseidon, who immediately spat her back onto
the sand. She sprang to her feet and decided to try it once
again but unfortunately her board was cracked. It was only
then that she realized how much she had risked herself.
Answer to question 23
/d/; /d/; /t/; /d/; /t/;
/d/; /d/; /t/; /d/; /t/
Question 24
In one of the groups of words below, the
th is not voiced in one of the words.
Which group is it, and what is the word?
A) Breathe, although, either
B) Together, smooth, these
C) Truth, bathe, Northern
Answer to question 24
group C - truth /tru:/
Question 25 :This is a bonus question to be
answered by all the groups.
Translate the transcription below back into
words:
i gt sp w smaj lv
mdrnmonalisa nr fes
Answer to question 25
She gets up with the smile of a modern Monalisa
on her face.