Phonetic Script Association Flashcards

An MLAT-style chart lists symbols for consonants only. The word 'aye' would be represented by how many consonant symbols from this chart?

Answer: 0

'Aye' is pronounced /aɪ/ and consists entirely of a diphthong vowel with no consonants.

A phonetic script encodes pitch by placing a symbol above (high), on (mid), or below (low) the baseline. The word 'really?' said as a question rises in pitch. Where would its final vowel symbol appear?

Answer: Above the baseline

A rising pitch at the end of a question maps to the high-pitch position, which is above the baseline.

A code requires students to identify which two symbols share the same vowel sound. Which pair shares the exact same vowel?

Answer: 'feet' and 'beat'

Both 'feet' and 'beat' contain the long /iː/ vowel sound, making them a matching pair.

In a phonetic association task, ✈ is defined as the sound shared by 'measure,' 'vision,' and 'genre.' What sound is ✈?

Answer: /ʒ/

All three words contain the voiced palato-alveolar fricative /ʒ/, the 'zh' sound found in 'measure.'

A phonetic script marks syllable boundaries with a vertical bar |. How many | marks would appear inside the word 'uncomfortable'?

Answer: 4

'Uncomfortable' has 5 syllables (un-com-for-ta-ble), requiring 4 internal boundary marks.

A learner is told: symbol ✜ represents any sound where the tongue tip touches the ridge behind the upper teeth. Which group of sounds would all use ✜?

Answer: /t/, /d/, /n/, /l/

/t/, /d/, /n/, and /l/ are all alveolar sounds produced with the tongue tip at the alveolar ridge.

An MLAT phonetic script uses ❑ for any vowel in a stressed open syllable and ❒ for any vowel in a stressed closed syllable. In 'go,' the vowel is in a(n) ___ syllable and receives ___.

Answer: open; ❑

'Go' ends with a vowel sound and no closing consonant, making it an open syllable that receives ❑.