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Phonetics 1 - Assignment 3 |
The deadline for this assignment is 19 November, before class
in the 12th week.
You may return
it by email to me at
peturk@hi.is,
or as a print-out or handwritten answer, at the service desk in Gimli, in my pigeon-hole in Nyi
garður, or at the beginning of the class on 19 November. You may also send
by post (postal date counts)
to:
Pétur Knútsson, Nýja garði, Háskóli Íslands, 101 Reukjavík.
There is one question in this assignment.
Choose a passage of modern English from a novel, newspaper or magazine. Take the first 50 words, and then go on to the end of the sentence. Remember to include all the words in the passage, including the small words, but you should not count the proper names, which may be difficult to transcribe. Paste or copy the passage, or include a photocopy. Then follow these instructions:
- Instructions 2 and 3 may not make much sense until after the 11th- and 12th- week classes, so you will probably make some mistakes here. I shall not count them as mistakes
- In Assignment 4, when we have dealt with these new topics, you will be asked to correct these mistakes - so keep a copy!
Your transcription will look something like this:
The Riders gazed up at Théoden like men startled out of a dream. Harsh
as an old raven’s their master’s voice sounded in their ears after the music
of Saruman. (- and so on for 50 words)
Note: You will probably make mistakes in your placement of
stress-marks
and in your transcriptions of weak forms. For instance, you may transcribe
the strong forms of words such as "as", "of" and "have" -
(
instead of
,
,
instead
of
,
instead of
),
although I asked for the weak forms. Please note that I shall not count
these as
mistakes in this assignment, but you will be expected not to make the
same mistakes
in Assignment 4.
PK
updated to 16.11.2008.