‫اسم الدكتور‪ :‬فاطمة عبد الصمد محمد الشافعي‬
‫اسم المادة‪ :‬صوتيات‬
‫(ورقة كاملة) كود ‪223‬‬
‫اسم الكلية‪ :‬اآلداب‬
‫تاريخ االمتحان‪2012/1/10 :‬‬
‫الفرقة‪ :‬تعليم مفتوح‬
‫التخصص‪ :‬اللغة االنجليزية‬
1. Explain what is meant by two only of the following:
a) Palatals are the sounds produced by the help of the hard palate. The hard
palate is the concave middle part of the roof of the mouth. It helps in the
production of the palatal sounds, e.g. /ʃ/ and /Ʒ/ as in fish and vision,
respectively.
b) Stops are the sounds characterized by a complete air passage closure that
stops the airflow in the mouth and releases the sound with the air relief.
These sounds are also called plosives, e.g. /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/.
c) Labio-dentals are /f/ and /v/. They are produced by narrowing the air
passage by the lower lip and the upper front teeth. The mechanism of
producing each of these sounds starts when the air starts its trip out of the
lungs moving upward in the vocal system. As the soft palate is raised to
close the nasal cavity, the air has only one passage to go out through the
mouth. It passes through the oral cavity till it reaches a part where the air
stream is very narrowed by the lower lip and the upper front teeth. It
forces itself gradually out of this narrow passage producing friction with
the sound. The vocal cords viberate on the articulation of /v/ producing
voice. The voiceless /f/ is found in words like feel /fi:l/, left /left/, roof
/ru:f/. The voiced /v/ is found in words like van /væn/ , over /ͻ:vər/, leave
/li:v/.
Figures are provided to support the answer.
2. For each group of sounds listed below, state the phonetic
feature or features which they all share.
a. Fricative, oral, consonants
b. Vowels, oral, short
c. Consonants, oral
d. Stop, consonants, oral
3.Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following
phonetic descriptions; then give an English word that
contains this sound.
a. /ʧ/
b. /k/
c. /ð/
d. /ə/
e. /v/
f. /u:/
4.Write the phonetic symbol for the first sound in each word,
according to your pronunciation.
a. /ʤ/
b. /ð/
c. /r/
d. /n/
5.Write the phonetic symbol for the last sound in each word,
according to your pronunciation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
/θ/
/f/
/ʧ/
/k/
6.Match the sounds under column A with one or
more phonetic properties from column B as
illustrated in the example.
a. /f/ ______ 7_______9_ ________
b. /k/ ______1 ______4__ ___7_____
c. /ŋ/ ______1 _______2_ __5__7____
d. /u/ ______3 _______5_ __6___8___
e. /ʧ/ _____7_ _______10_ ________
f. /i: ______5 ________6 ________