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Phonetics 1 - Extra Assignments, 2008

Students who have miseed assignments have th option of submitting UP TO TWO extra assignments.
Due date for extra assignmnents is 15 December, the same date as the examination.

The extra asssignment is the same as Question 2 of Assignment 4, except that 150 words are required instead of 50:

Extra assignment
Choose a passage of modern English from a novel, newspaper or magazine. Take the first 150 words, and then go on to the end of the sentence. Paste or copy the passage, or include a photocopy.

• TRANSCRIBE the passage into RP or GA, saying which. Remember to use a dictionary.
• In your transcription, show sentence stresses by putting the stress mark in front of the stressed syllables.
• Transcribe the weak forms of unstressed words wherever appropriate.
• Remember not to use any punctuation or capital letters,