To answer the questions, simply give the word at the end of the chain. give your word in correct orthography: not transcription.
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Sometimes the starting word will be given in orthography and sometimes in transcription. Remember that transcribed words always occur in brackets.
1. Begin with the word 'stream'.
Eliminate the fricative.
Voice the alveolar consonant.
2. Begin with the word 'geese'.
Devoice the stop.
Voice the alveolar sound.
3. Begin with the word [pliz]
Without changing its place or its voicing, make the final sound into a stop.
Voice the bilabial sound.
Eliminate the liquid.
4. Begin with the word 'please'.
Delete the lateral.
Voice the stop.
5. Begin with the word [frik]
Eliminate the velar sound.
Without changing its manner or voicing, make the fricative interdental
6. Begin with the word 'beak'.
Change the voicing of the bilabial consonant.
After the vowel, insert a nasal which has the same place of articulation as the final stop.
7. Begin with the word 'three'.
Eliminate the voiced consonant.
Without changing manner or voicing, make the fricative
alveolar.
8. Begin with the word [nid].
Make the nasal bilabial.
Delete the stop.
9. Begin with the word 'bees'.
Without changing manner or voicing,
make the bilabial sound alveolar.
Devoice any alveolar sounds in the word.
Without changing manner or voicing, make the fricative alveopalatal.
Make the fricative into an africate.
10. Begin with the word 'sheep'.
Without changing manner or voicing, make the fricative
alveolar.
Voice the stop.
Without changing voicing or place of articulation, change the manner of the last segment to 'nasal'.
At this point, the questions will become slightly harder Check your vowel chart and be sure you know how to pronounce the vowels used here.
11. Begin with the word [pat].
Voice the consonant that is furthest back in the mouth.
12. Begin with the word 'job'.
Devoice the africate.
For all consonants that occur behind the alveolar ridge, make them into fricatives without changing place or voicing.
Devoice the bilabial.
13. Begin with the word 'throb'.
Make the liquid into a lateral.
Make the voiceless sound alveolar.
Devoice the stop.
14. Begin with the word 'peck'.
Voice any consoant(s) that occur(s) in front of the alveolar ridge.
Without changing manner or voicing, move any velar sounds to the alveolar ridge.
Insert a voiceless alveolar fricative before the voiceless stop.
15. Begin with the word 'desk'.
Devoice all the consonants.
Insert a retroflex liquid after the alveolar stop.
Eliminate all velar sounds.
Make all stops bilabial.
16. Begin with the word 'tag'.
Make the place of articulation of the second stop the same as the first without changing voicing.
Replace the voiced stop with a nasal at the same place of articulation.
17. Begin with the word [not].
Change the manner of the nasal to 'stop[' without changing voicing or place of articulation.
Devoice all the stops.
Without changing manner or voicing, make the first voiceless consonant in the word velar.
Insert a voiceless alveolar fricative after the alveolar sound.
Voice any velar sounds.
Metathesize (that is reorder) the two alveolar segments.
18. Begin with the word 'kissed'.
Delete any voiceless alveolar stops.
Of the two consonants, make the one that is closest to the lips alveo[palatal.
Make the velar sound
alveolar.
Voice any stops.
19. Begin with the word [majnd].
Denasalize the bilabial without changing voicing.
Devoice all the stops.
Insert a voiceless, alveolar fricative before the bilabial.
Delete any alveolar stops.
20. Begin with the word 'fades'.
Delete any alveolar fricatives.
Devoice any stops.
Change any stops to fricatives without changing place or voicing.
21. Begin with the word [blum].
Devoice any stops.
Make any nasals
alveolar.
Delete anything in front of the teeth.
Without changing voicing or place, change any liquids into stops.
Devoice any non-nasals.
22. Begin with the word 'stick'.
Metathesize the stops.
Voice any voiceless alveolar stops.
Nasalize any voiced stops without changing place of articulation.
23. Begin with the word 'stink'.
Delete the voiceless velar stop.
Make the fricative
interdental.
Delete the alveolar stop.
24. Begin with the word 'safe'.
Voice the labiodental fricative.
Without changing place or voicing, find the fricative that is closest to the velum and make it into a stop.
Voice all stops.
25. Begin with the word 'stripes'.
Delete the first fricative you find in the word.
Voice all stops.
Delete any bilabials.
Delete all voiced consonants that are not liquids.
Update, Spring 2026