To answer the questions, simply give the word at the end of the chain. give your word in correct orthography: not transcription.
If you would like to show the intermediate steps, you may, but this is not required.
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.
And you get:
2. Begin with the word 'geese'.
Devoice the stop.
Voice the alveolar sound.
And you get:
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.
And you get:
4. Begin with the word 'please'.
Delete the lateral.
Voice the stop.
And you get:
5. Begin with the word [frik]
Eliminate the velar sound.
Without changing its manner or voicing, move the fricative one place of articulation backward in the mouth.
And you get:
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.
And you get:
7. Begin with the word 'three'.
Eliminate the voiced consonant.
Without changing manner or voicing, move the fricative one place of articulation toward the glottis.
To the end of the word, add a stop which has the same place of articulation and voicing as the word's first consonant.
And you get:
8. Begin with the word [nid].
Move the nasal one place of articulation forward.
Without changing voicing, change the stop to a fricative.
Without changing voicing or place, change the manner of the words' first sound to 'stop'.
And you get:
9. Begin with the word 'beas'.
Without changing manner or voicing, move the bilabial sound one place of articulation toward the uvula.
Devoice any alveolar sounds in the word.
Without changing manner or voicing, move the fricative one place of articulation toward the palat.
Make the fricative into an africate.
And you get:
10. Begin with the word 'sheep'.
Without changing manner or voicing, move the fricative one place of articulation toward the place of articulation of the stop segment.
Voice the stop.
Without changing voicing or place of articulation, change the manner of the last segment to 'nasal'.
And you get:
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 backin the mouth.
Move the voiceless consonant one place of articulation back in the mouth, changing manner if necessary but leaving voicing unchanged.
Insert a nasal before the stop consonant. the nasal you insert should have the same place of articulation as the stop does.
And you get:
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.
And you get:
13. Begin with the word 'throb'.
Make the liquid into a lateral.
Move the voiceless sound one place of articulation toward the pharynx without changing manner or voicing.
Devoice the stop.
And you get:
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 one place of articulation toward the alveolar ridge.
Insert a voiceless alveolar fricative before the voiceless stop.
And you get:
15. Begin with the word 'desk'.
Devoice all the consonants.
Insert a retroflex liquid after the alveolar stop.
Eliminate all velar sounds.
without changing voicing or manner, move all the voiceless sounds one place of articulation forward in the mouth.
Voice the stop.
And you get:
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.
Change the voiceless stop into a fricative at the same place of articulation without changing voicing.
Move the nasal one place of articulation toward the back of the mouth without changing manner or voicing.
And you get:
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, move the first voiceless consonant in the word one place of articulation toward the glottis.
Insert a voiceless alveolar fricative after the alveolar sound.
voice any velar sounds.
Metathesize (that is reorder) the two alveolar segments.
And you get:
18. Begin with the word 'kissed'.
Delete any voiceless alveolar stops.
Of the two consonants, move the one that is closest to the lips one place of articulation back, not changing voicing or manner.
Move the velar sound one place of articulation forward without changing manner of voicing.
Voice any stops.
And you get:
19. Begin with the word 'mind'.
Denasalize the bilabial without changing voicing.
Devoice all the stops.
Insert a voiceless, alveolar fricative before the bilabial.
Delete any alveolar stops.
And you get:
20. Begin with the word 'fades'.
Delete any alveolar fricatives.
Devoice any stops.
Change any stops to fricatives without changing place or voicing.
Move the fricative that is closest to the velum one place of articulation forward in the mouth without changing manner or voicing.
And you get:
21. Begin with the word [blum].
Devoice any stops.
Move any nasals one place of articulation toward the uvula without changing manner or voicing.
Delete anything in front of the teeth.
Without changing voicing or place, change any liquids into stops.
Devoice any non-nasals.
And you get:
22. Begin with the word 'stick'.
Metathesize the stops.
voice any voiceless alveolar stops.
Nasalize any voiced stops without changing place of articulation.
And you get:
23. Begin with the word 'stink'.
Delete the voiceless velar stop.
Move the fricative one place of articulation away from the nasal without changing manner or voicing.
Delete the alveolar stop.
And you get:
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.
Without changing voicing, make the fricative alveolar.
Without changing manner or voicing, move all the consonants one place of articulation forward.
And you get:
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.
And you get