Language Structure Problems

• The Official SAMPA Homepage for Phonetic Transcription (which has all the symbols)
  A cautionary note: the notations on the site are based on British, *not* North american English.
• Simpler SAMPA Chart with Place Manner and Voicing Listed for standard, North american English
• Some sentences transcribed in SAMPA with audio Answers
• Choose the correctly transcribed animal and be taunted if you are wrong!
• find the citation form and identify the reasonable variations of the word
• Reading Practice 1: About a little boy
• Read some suggested endings for the story in SAMPA, create and transcribe a title for each and choose your favorite
• Some ...um ... Terrific Jokes in SAMPA
• A Story about a Little Bird: Reading and Transcribing Practice
• Find the Transcription Errors in this Story
• Help with Reading Transcription without Word boundaries marked

Phonetics: IPA

• The Official Page of the International Phonetics Association
• Simpler IPA Chart with Place Manner and Voicing Listed for standard, North American English
• Some sentences transcribed in IPA with audio Answers
• some animal names to read and correct
• Some ...um ... Terrific Jokes in IPA
• Find the citation form and identify the reasonable variations of the word
• IPA Reading Practice: Story 1: About my Cats
• IPA Reading Practice: Story 2: About a Little Boy
• Read some suggested endings for the story in IPA, create and transcribe a title for each and choose your favorite
• A Story about a Little Bird: Reading and Transcribing Practice
• Find the Transcription Errors in this Story
• Transcribing the Car Talk Guys
• Help with Reading Transcription without Word Boundaries Marked

Place, Manner and Voicing: Phonological Processes

• 1. First Practice
  This first practice uses only one vowel: [i]. You are given place, manner and voicing of the consonants in the words and asked to write their orthographic representation.
• 2. Consonant Chains
  You are given a starting word and a series of instructions for changing place manner and voicing of its consonants until you arrive at a new word.
• 3. another Set of Consonant Word Chains: Places and Things
• 4. A More difficult set of word chains
  This one includes phonological processes, syllable structure and some vowels
• 5. Identify the Phonological Process you Need at Each Step in the Chain
• 6. A Nice, Colorful Set of Chains

• 7. A Silly Joke with Answer
• 8. An exercise with the vowels written in
• 9. A Small piece of advice with no word boundaries and vowels in features
• 10. A more difficult Feature Exercise
• 11. Another, (funnier?) more difficult Feature Exercise

Phonology

Phonological Processes

• A Partial List of Phonological Processes for your Reference
• Label the Processes
• Listening for Phonological Processes: a Story about Chocolate from the Smothers Brothers
• Listening and Transcribing Phonological Processes: a Story about a Yellow Cat
• transcribing more Formal Speech: Ian Frazier's "Lamentations of the Father

Classroom Activities

• Anagrams: Given Max Syllable and a Set of 5 Consonants and 3 Vowels
  An in-class game for four groups; transcriptions in IPA.
• the Same Game with Transcriptions in SAMPA

Finding Phonemes

Phoneme Detection

In writing up the answers to these, I've tried to use slightly different wording each time. It is essentially one of the same two messages over and over, but expressed in slightly different manners.

Remember: if you find a minimal pair, the two sounds contrast and are different phonemes: English dime/time. You can substitute a /d/ for a /t/ and get a new word. /d/ and /t/ can occur in the same environment: the same place in a word.

If you find a pattern for the occurrence of the two sounds, they are in complementary distribution and are allophones of the same phoneme: For example, English t and aspirated t are in complementary distribution: you cannot substitute one for the other. If you do substitute one for the other, you will never get a new word: just a badly pronounced version of the same word you started with.

First Set of Problems

• Notalang
• Neveralang 1
• Neveralang 2
• Japanese 1
• Japanese 2
• Japanese 3

More Problems without Posted Solutions

• Liquids in Ragayo: the Language of North american Bears
• /r/ in Ragayo: The Language of North american Bears
• English [a] vs [u] and [n] vs [N]
• Snake
• appletree Phonology
• Stoplang
• Spanish
• Japanese 4
• Oroha
• Hawaiian Phonology
• Basque
• Tweet: a language of cute little parrots
• More tweet
• More Hawaiian Phonology
• Korean Phonology
• Chicken
• a much more involved Spanish Problem
• Labio-Dental Fricatives in Ragayo: The Language of North American Bears
• Labio-Dental Fricatives in Old Ragayo: The Language of North American Bears Precontact
• Comparing Labio-Dental Fricatives in Old and Modern Ragayo
• Hawaiian: Again
• Hawaiian [w] and [v]
• Hawaiian [b] and [p]

Fun with Syllables

• Some Notes on Syllables in General
• Notes on Pronouncing Words from other Languages
  Adapted from the Language Construction pages.
• Syllable Problem 0: Hawaiian
• Syllable Problem 1: Notalang with answer
• Syllable Problem 2: Neveralang
• Syllable Problem 3: Liqupa
• Syllable Problem 4: turkish
• Syllable Problem 5: Hindi

Orthography and Phonology

• Spanish Plurals

Morphology

Beginner

• Japanese
• Korean
• Spanish
• Dutch Plurals
• Some Spanish Suffixes
• R Dahl's Witches: first Half of the Data
• Ragayo: The Language of Bears

Slightly more Tricky

With Answers

• Manzanic: A dialect of North american appletree (With an audio as well as a written answer file.)

With Allomorphs and Answers, too

• R Dahl's Witches:Second Half of the Data

No Answer Posted

• Build an English Noun
• Comparing Quechua and Zulu Plurals
• Some hawaiian Plurals
• Burmese Plurals
• Swahili Plurals
• Japanese Plurals
• Ragayo: The Language of Bears: Plurals
• Italian one-word Sentences
• Sardinian
• Slovene Agreement and Pronouns
• Some Common Japanese Words
• Ragayo: The Language of Bears: Affixes
• Guarani Numbers
• Hawaiian Numbers
• Spanish Numbers
• Setswana Pronouns and Short Sentences
• Babish
• Dolittan
• Squirrelic
• Duck
• English Past Tense (with Allomorphs)
• Allomorphs of the Spanish Diminuative
• Esperanto
• Guarani Calendar Terms
• Turkish allomorphy and agreement

Word Order

• Hawaiian word Order
• A Slightly Different Hawaiian Problem
• Latin
• More Latin
• Oroha
• Turkish
• Afrikaans
• Basque
• Japanese

Practice Glossing

• Babish revisited
• Given Boylang Glosses, Form the Grammatical English Sentences
• Given KoruNoS Glosses, Form the Grammatical English Sentences

MorphoSyntax

• Build an English Noun Phrase
• English Lexical Aspect
• Adverbials of time in english
• english Phrasal Verbs Vs. Verb + Prepositional Phrase
• Esperanto Adjectives
• Kiswahili simple Possessive construction
• Solomon Islands Pijin Possessives
• Turkish Possessives
• Determiners and Plurals in Norwegian
• Negation in Esperanto
• Negation in Japanese
• Negation in Hawaiian
• Negation in Anseo
• Yes/No Question Formation in Esperanto
• Yes/No Question Formation in Ainu
• Yes/No Question Formation in Oroha
• Yes/No Question Formation in Icelandic
• Loklang Locatives and such
• Japanese Information Question Formation
• Dutch Information Question Formation
• Some Klingon Sentences
• Swahili simple Sentences with Pronouns
• Given word order and function word an affix rules, translate sentences into Grammax
• Turkish Sentences
• Turkish Sentences: Parts of Speech
• Sardinian Verbal Paradigm
• Javanese Adpositions

First Language Acquisition

• First Language Acquisition: Pronunciation: Keith, Kurt and Kristie
• The Case of Madam Flambeaux

Semantics

• english Polysemy and Homonymy
• An Esperanto Prefix
• A Hawaiian Prefix
• Ajak sentences and Adjectives
• CoffeeMoneyWaterKids: a Couple Affixes

Psycholinguistics

• Practice in categorizing Speech Errors

Anything Goes

• HawaiianPronunciation of English Words

Braille

• An elementary Braille Puzzle

• Top of Page
• Friday Night Linguistics