A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

Chapter 5 - Homework Exercises

Exercise A. List the strong and weak forms of ten words. (PDF)

Exercise B. Give new examples of several kinds of assimilations.(Online)

Exercise C. Give five more examples of assimilations. (PDF)

Exercise D. Phrases showing how words can two different stress patterns. (Online)

Exercise E. Show which syllables have tonic accents, stress, and full vowels. (PDF)

Exercise F. Historial changes in word stress. (PDF)

Exercise G. Sets of words showing stress alternations.(PDF)

Exercise H. Indicate stress and intonation patterns. (PDF)

Exercise I. Make a segmental and a ToBI transcription (PDF)