& Hall Wong Winter 2006 Ling 500 Homework 3: Reading Spectrograms, Part 1 This homework involves reading spectrograms of English words that consist only of glides and vowels. First, transcribe each of the following words in IPA (one of them is done for you, since there is not a standard orthographic version of this word). Then match each transcription with its corresponding spectrogram. Words: 1. I 2. we 3. you 4. oh 5. aaah [Q] 6. way
Spectrograms:
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0 28.3582
28.9297 Time (s)
A.
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0 18.529
19.0141 Time (s)
B.
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0 42.3038
42.9398 Time (s)
C.
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0 0
0.502948 Time (s)
D.
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0 20.4946
20.8672 Time (s)
E.
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0 7.11406
7.56432 Time (s)
F.
Answers, Homework 3; A. aahh [Q] (5) B. you [ju] C. (3) way [wej] or [wei] (6) D. I [Aj] or [Ai] (1) E. oh [ow] or [ou] (4) F. we [wi] (2) Hints, Homework 3: 1. identify each part of each word so you know what vowels and glides to look for 2. look for monophthongs vs. diphthongs 3. glides are paler, have less energy especially at beginning 4. high vowels (and glides) have low F1; low vowels have high F1 5. front vowels have high F2; back vowels have low F2 6. make use of the fact that...