Thursday, September 29, 2011

Blog Post # 3

1. Imbalance; incompatible; incomplete; indecent; inglorious; ingratitude; illegal; illiterate; immature; imperfect; impossible; irrational; irresponsible; insane; intolerant; invariable.

We used different prefixes when writing this kinds of words; for example for words we letters like M,P,B we used im, to indicate the negative form.
for words with letters like R, we used ir to indicate the negative form.
for words starting with L, we used il, and for words starting with all others consonants, we used in.

2.

a. Bat: is a voiceless, alveolar and stop.
Book: is a voiceless, velar, stop.
Cough: is a voiceless, labiodental and fricative.
Ship: is a voiceless, bilabial and stop.

Since all of this words have voiceless phoneme, have S sound, which is also a voiceless sound, in that way the pronunciation is easier.

b. Cab: is voiced, bilabial and stop.
Cave: is voiced, labiodental and fricative.
lad: is voiced, stop and alveolar.
Rag: voiced, velar and stop.
Thing: voiced, velar and nasal.

All of this words, have voiced phoneme, so all of the plurals of this words, have z ending pronunciaction, the purpose of this is also to make the pronunciation much easier.

c. Bus: voiceless, alveolar fricative.
Bush: voiceless, palatal and fricative.
Church: voiceless, palatal and affricative.
Judge: voiced, palatal and affricative.

In this words, are a mix of ending sounds, some uses s sounds and some uses z sounds.

1 comment:

  1. I found that are answers were sort of similar up until the very last part of #2. i felt that the main reason was because of the vowels and how they were pronounced however after reading your post i realize that there could be other reasons on why the plural -s sounds like / ez /.

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