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Phonetics and Phonology Course Assignment

The course assignment for Phonetics and Phonology at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City requires students to work in groups on eight specific tasks related to phonemic transcription, vowel and consonant description, syllable structure analysis, sentence stress marking, and examples of assimilation, elision, and linking. The final product must be formatted according to specified guidelines and submitted by the 14th class meeting. Evaluation will be based on collaboration, with a total of 10 marks available, including 1 mark for format and 9 marks for accuracy.

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Phonetics and Phonology Course Assignment

The course assignment for Phonetics and Phonology at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City requires students to work in groups on eight specific tasks related to phonemic transcription, vowel and consonant description, syllable structure analysis, sentence stress marking, and examples of assimilation, elision, and linking. The final product must be formatted according to specified guidelines and submitted by the 14th class meeting. Evaluation will be based on collaboration, with a total of 10 marks available, including 1 mark for format and 9 marks for accuracy.

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The Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City

Faculty of Foreign Languages

COURSE ASSIGNMENT
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

1. Description

Students are assigned in groups.


Collaboratively, do the tasks from 1 to 8.
Final product is a hard copy formatted:
- Word document
- Font Times New Roman for letters
- Font Duy Minh for sounds/phonemes
- Size 15
- Margin: left 3cm, top 3cm, right 2 cm, bottom 2 cm
Submission Deadline: Class Meeting 14 of the Semester

2. Evaluation

Students are evaluated for the collaborative product.


Total score: 10 marks including 1 mark for format and 9 marks for the correct answers.

Tasks

1/ Transcribe phonemically individual words in the given sentence, putting the words in separate
lines. Then give the number of sounds/phonemes in each word. (1 mark)
2/ Describe the vowels in each one-syllable word. (1 mark)
3/ Describe the consonants in each one-syllable word. (1 mark)
4/ Write the maximum phonological structure of an English syllable. Then analyze the structure of
the one-syllable words in the given sentence. (1 mark)
5/ Transcribe the given sentence, using the appropriate form (weak or strong). (1 mark)
6/ Put the sentence stress marks and divide the given sentence up into feet, using a dotted vertical
line as a boundary symbol. (1 mark)
7/ Give 3 examples including 1 noun, 1 adjective, 1 verb for each type of stress. Stress marks are also
included for illustration and brief explanation. (1.5 marks)

Stress in Simple Words


- Simple 2-syllable words
- Simple 3-syllable words
Stress in Complex Words
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
*Suffixes carrying the primary stress themselves
*Suffixes that do not affect stress placement
*Suffixes that influence stress in the stem
Stress in Compound Words
- Compound Nouns
- Other Compounds
Stress in Word-class Pairs
8/ Give 3 examples including illustration and brief explanation for each type of assimilation, elision
and linking. (1.5 marks)

Assimilation
- Regressive Assimilation
- Progressive Assimilation
- Assimilation of Manner
- Assimilation of Place
- Assimilation of Voicing
- Coalescent Assimilation
Elision
- Weak vowels disappear in unstressed syllables
- Loss of medial consonants in complex consonant clusters
- Omission of /h/ in weak form of pronouns
- Loss of /v/ in /9v/
- Between weak forms of auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries
Linking
- Consonant - Vowel Link
- Consonant - Consonant Link
- Vowel - Vowel Link
- Vowel - Semi-Vowel Link

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