Progress test 2 due to 28th of February 2012 Phonetics 1) Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stressed words and use weak forms where appropriate: ’She can ’swim ’faster than ’I can. (contrast) /’ʃi: kən ’swɪm ’fɑ:stə ðən ’aɪ kən/ ’She’s from ’Scotland. ’Where ’are ’you from? (contrast) /’ʃi:z frəm ’skɒtlənd. ’weər ɑ: ’ju: frəm?/ ’Sally’s been ’trying to ’send you an ’e-mail. /’sælɪz bin ’traɪɪŋ tə ’send ju ən ’i:meɪl/ ’Alastair ’claimed he was ’selling the ’company
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Edward Chiang Professor Shaffer ENC1102 12 September 2011 Summary Assignment In “Animism and the Alphabet”‚ David Abram‚ a journalist in the Environmental Ethics and a founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE)‚ asserts that through the evolution of the human language‚ there is a widening gap in the relationship between humanity and nature. Through the examples of pictographic systems and hieroglyphics‚ Abram suggests that our earliest forms of writing stemmed off of our ecological origins
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dr Hanna Dziczek-Karlikowska Phonology and Phonetics – year I LECTURE I - INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION PHONETICS and PHONOLOGY TWO SUBDISCIPLINES IN LINGUISTICS WHICH DEAL WITH SOUNDS 1. LINGUISTICS: the scientific study of language and its structure. There are broadly three aspects to the study: language form‚ language meaning‚ and language in context. LINGUISTICS DESCRIPTIVE THEORETICAL APPLIED Anthropological linguistics Cognitive linguistics Computational
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sound of the noun. book / buk/ books / buks/ dog /dQg / dogs /dQgz/ Assimilation is a phonological process due to economy of effort by which sounds are influenced by neighbouring sounds and come to share some or all of their phonetic characteristics. In this case the process is also established‚ which means it is obligatory. It is progressive because one sound carries its influence forward to the sound that follows. It is assimilation of voice or voice assimilation because
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as the Iranian‚ Babylonian‚ Mexican‚ Greek‚ Arabian‚ English‚ German‚ Oriental‚ and even Native American (Hefner NP Online ). These demons that are “Lilith” like‚ consist of a winged female demon‚ who has the power to be extremely fertile. In the Alphabet of Ben Sira‚ Lilith leaves Adam. Upon her leaving‚ Adam calls upon God asking if he could do anything about her leaving. God then sends 3 angels after Lilith; Snwy‚ Snsnwy‚ and Smnglf‚ whom threaten Lilith‚ if she does not return to Adam‚ one hundred
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Question: Compare and contrast spelling (orthography) and phonetic transcriptions. Your terms should be well defined and your discussion should be well illustrated. Write full sentences in Standard English. Author; Jason John Thesis statement: Phonetic transcriptions places emphasis on the precise representation of speech sounds. Whereas Orthography‚ particularly English orthography contains many variations when coming to the actual lexical transcriptions and pronunciations of those lexical
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG HKU SPACE Community College Associate Degree Programmes 2012-13 Course Document Course Title: English Phonetics and Phonology Course Code: C C 8 8 3 5 6 0 0 Aims and Objective This course will focus on articulatory phonetics and the classification of sounds in English. It will explain how English is pronounced in the context of a general theory about speech sounds and how they are organized in languages. Topics will include the speech production mechanism; the description
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following is a rounded back vowel? Check all that apply. Which of the following is a rounded back vowel? Check all that apply. x | o | | a | x | u | | ə | Question 21 ptsWhat is the primary articulator used in creating vowels? What is the primary articulator used in creating vowels? | the vocal folds | | the pharynx | xx | the tongue | | the nasal cavity | Question 34 ptsEvery vowel in English has a unique articulatory position based on: (choose as many as apply)
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The Best of Disney’s Marketing Strategies The Walt Disney Company or just Disney‚ as it is popularly called‚ is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world. What are the marketing strategies behind its astounding success? Here are a few. * Segmenting and targeting – Disney uses geographic‚ demographic and psychographic segmentation. In other words‚ it uses multi-segment targeting. Although it may seem like Disney targets only kids‚ Disney’s target market is the whole family. Walt Disney
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