A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

Chapter 4 - Homework Exercise D

Keep track of which contexts have words and which ones don't in a table like the one below. A later question asks for a generalization - does the voicing of the final consonant, or the place of articulation limit whether a vowel and consonant combination can occur?

Which vowel occurs before the smallest number of consonants?

Is there a word in English that ends in the following sequence? (yes/no)

[il]   

Correct: 0 ---- Run: 0

[_b][_m][_f][_t][_n][_l][_s][_z][_k][_g]
[ɛ]
[ʌ]
[aɪ]
[aʊ]
[ɔɪ]
[i]