dr Agnieszka Chada Fonetyka i fonologia fon2/1/2010
your name _________________________________________ your index number ______________
Please, note: Only students entitled to take this exam will get a passing grade after passing this exam. Other
persons sit and write this exam at their own risk. Time of exam: 90 min. Penalty for cheating: failing grade.
Grading scale: >90% = 5; >85% = 4,5; >80% = 4; >70% = 3,5; >60% = 3; <60% or cheating = 2
Total available: 60 pts. Your score: _____ /60 pts = ____% Your grade:______________
1. In the sentence I want to buy some apples,
a. mark stresses (2 pts)
b. indicate sentence type and choose the neutral intonation pattern (2 pts)
c. draw an intonation grid and name its parts (6 pts)
2. Explain how intonation shows that a list of items is finished or not in a sentence such as I want to
buy apples and oranges and bananas and some milk and some bread. (6 pts)
3. Name the parts of the human speech apparatus marked by solid lines on the diagram below. (8 pts)
4. Select stop consonants from the following list. Explain how stop consonants are produced. (6 pts)
[ j f d g r w tƒ Å‚ ]
5. Describe the position of speech organs for the sound pictured below. Which sound is it? (10 pts)
6. Finish the drawing of the head cross-section in the production of /K
/. How is /K
/ classified? (10 pts)
7. In the sentence You can get it,
a. mark stresses (2 pts)
b. indicate words pronounced in their weak (reduced) forms (2 pts)
c. explain how they reduce (how vowels and/or consonants change) (4 pts)
d. what would the sentence mean if strong forms were used instead? (2 pts)
EXTRA TASK: Explain the exceptional intonation pattern of special focus question tags on a chosen
example (5 extra pts)