Linguistics assignments

 

1. phonetic transcription
Everyone pronounces words differently. This assignment will allow you to send your own audio pronunciation along with the corresponding phonetic transcriptions. Record yourself saying the following 5 English words. Record each of the words separately, and say them naturally in the following carrier phrase: Say _______ again.
a. pen
b. rattle
c. cot
d. minute
e.
caught

Save each of these recordings as a unique file, compress them according to instructions on this site, and place them all on a web page owned by you. Provide a narrow transcription of each of these five words (do not transcribe the entire carrier phrase). Your transcriptions should be done on the web page. Use the IPA phon font for your transcriptions.

 

2. recording a sample for the speech accent archive
Visit the speech accent archive. Determine which samples are still needed (hint: the archive has enough Spanish samples). You may want to look at the accent atlas to see where there are no red dots. Send an email to the archive to confirm that your sample addition will be suitable. Go to the "submit a sample" page, and follow all of the instructions. Record the sample according do the directions and send it to the archive.