Sounds of English 2 (ENGA2206)
BA. English Language - ENG
Semester: Second Semester
Level: 200
Year: 2016
UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA
FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
INSTRUCTORS: PROF MBANGWANA/Dr ASONGANYI
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS: 2015/2016
MONTH: JULY
COURSE CODE
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NUMBER: ENG 206
YEAR;2016
COURSE TITLE: SOUNDS OF ENGLISH II
DATE:
TIME: 8
-11
TIME ALLOWED: 3 Hours
CREDIT VALUE: 6
SECTION ONE
INSTRUCTION:
Answer all
the Questions
in the
two sections
,
in
your answer booklets. Respect the
serial
order.
A. Write out the sounds of the underlined letters. (10mks) e.g. calm /a:
/
1) choir 6) loves 11) congregation 16) tomato
12) Bible 17) shoes
2) paper 7) chores
3) blessing 8) tomb 13) God
18) box
4) sk
ir
t 9) h
ear
t
14) y
es
19) law
5) chose 10) dwarf 15) yacht 20) mother
B. Write out another word that sounds like the following words. (10mks) e.g. here hear
1) tire 6) principle
2) higher
7) browse
3) bare
8) crewed
4)
use
9) manner
5) hoard 10) sure
C. Identify the consonant clusters in the following words. (7.Sinks) e.g. facts /kts/
1) conference 6) contract 11) drivers
2) grab 7) greet 12) examples
3) slaves 8) clinch 13) contemplate
4) strength 9) transfer 14) children
5) straight 10) corrections 15) press
D. Write out the silent letters in the following words. (7.Sinks) e.g. hope e
1) debt
6) column
11) sandwich
2) military
7) sioux
12) isle
3) v
alour
8) which
13) castle
4) yacht
9) victory
14)
colleague
5) know
10) would
15) raise
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E. Write out me vowel sound described below sound (5mks)
e.g. Front high unrounded long vowel /i:/
1. Back high rounded long vowel
2. Central mid-high neutral short vowel
3. Central mid-low rounded long vowel
4. Front low unrounded short vowel
5. Back low rounded short vowel
F. Write out the geminates in the following phrases, (l0mks) e.g. black king /k/ /k/
1)
dumb man 6) rich church
1) mixed tea 7) dogs’ zoo
2) orange jug 8) strict teacher
3) write twice 9) dark coffee
4) take kindly 10) twelfth thief
G. Identify the sounds described below. (l0mks) e.g. voiced bilabial plosive /b/
1) Voiceless bilabial plosive
2) Voiceless glottal fricative
3) Voiced alveolar lateral
4) Voiced palatal approximant
5) Voiceless dental fricative
6) Voiced velar nasal
7) Voiced alveolar approximant
8) Voiceless labio-dental fricative
9) Voiceless post-alveolar fricative
10) Voiced alveolar nasal
H. Identify the sounds at the beginning and at the end of the following words. (5mks)
e.g. bags
Ibl
and /z/
1) knit 6) sorrow
2) church 7) glory
3) no 8) just
4) ninth 9) honour
5) swear 10) psychic
I. Write the word which contains the same sound as the sounds in the underlined letters of the words.
(5marks) e.g. /bag/ A. mane B. man C. grave D. day man
1) /church/ A. chronicle
B. chalet
C. scheme
D. patch
2) /go/ A. nut
B. naught
C. not
D. note
3)/car/ A. heat
B. trap
C. track
D. heart
4) /path/
A. gather
B. breathe C. bathe
D. theme
5) /chalk/ A. law
B, low
C. lone
D. lot
6) /hotel/
A. heavy
B. heir
C. honest
D. honour
7) /measure/
A. occasion
B. national
C. passion
D. portion
8) /love/ A. put
B. cut
C. push
D. lone
9) /spoil/ A. tortoise
B. nose
C. noise
D. pose
10) /here/
A. heard
B. fair
C. fear
D. fare
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SECTION TWO
1.) Stress usually serves to indicate word class (vb and noun). Juxtapose the words you have selected (20 of them) in
two columns according to their word class, indicate the stress and transcription.
(20 marks)
2.) What is intonation? Discuss and illustrate the grammatical, accentual and attitudinal functions of intonation.
How can intonation be linked occasionally to stress in English.
(15 marks)
3.) Certain words and their derivatives undergo different stress rhythms. Present and transcribe these words
accordingly in three columns.
Diplomat
Personal
Politics
Rhetoric
Telegraph
Photograph
diplomacy
personify
political
Rhetorical
telegraphy
photography
diplomatic
personality
politician
rhetorician
telegraphic
photographer (15 marks)
4.) Provide the different pronunciations (RP, AmE, CamE) of the words below while indicating their stress and
transcription. Charade, tomato, lieutenant, ambulance, mandatory, parsimony, Chicago, charlatan, representative,
obligatory
(10 marks)
5.) Discuss and indicate in a transcription and stress in English speech:
(a) Primary and Tertiary stress
(b) Primary and secondary stress
(c) Starcaco stress
What are the speech characteristics of these accents? (10 marks)
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