LING 330 Study Guide - Final Guide: Vocal Tract, Cardinal Vowels, Phonetic Transcription
18 Nov 2016
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Ones to focus less on (5 questions each): The exam questions cover the description of place and manner for consonants. The exam questions cover aspects of both broad and narrow transcription. You should be comfortable with the following: (1) identifying, and correcting, errors in broad transcriptions. (2) recovering english orthographic words from provided narrow transcriptions. (3) aspects of allophonic variation and how they can be transcribed. The exam questions cover aspects of allophonic variation of common english consonants. Nasal plosion: when a stop is followed by an homorganic nasal (usually [d] or [t] followed by. [n]), the velum raises and allows the air pressure built up in the mouth to be released through the nasal cavity. Lateral plosion: when a stop is followed by a homorganic [l] (usually [t] or [d]), air pressure is released by lowering the sides of the tongue. Mainly chapter 4 in your text, but also some concepts from chapter 1 (the articulation of vowel.
