A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

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Section

2.1 Re verse Transcription

Question

The following is an untitled poem by James Joyce (1946). In the spaces provided

between the lines, write a reverse transcription (convert to the standard English

orthography). Each word has been written as if it were produced in isolation, an

idealization that simplifies the reverse transcription task. The vowels in each pair

A-a and 9-3 are very similar in pronunciation; the former pair sounds like the

vowel in butt, the latter pair like the vowel in Burt. For a discussion of why two

different symbols are used to transcribe each of these pairs, see Linguistics,

pp. 126-140 (esp. p. 138).

2. tu dip aend dip3 blu.


3. 6~ laemp f11z w10 A pe11 gin glou


4. t~iz AV 6a aevanu.


5. 6~ ould piaenou plerz aen c~,


6. sade~t aend slou aend geI.


7. Ji bcnz apan 6a jclou kiz,


8. h3 hcd ~nkla~nz 61s weI.


9. J~I Bats* aend gleIv wa~d aIz aend haenz