A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

Name

Section

25 Special Topic 2: Transcription (Vowels before /J/)

Questions

Write the following words containing the phoneme /.I/, using the transcription

system given in appendix 3 and in Linguistics (review pp. 97-100).

A. 1. boor

2. bore
   3. poor


3. care
   5. car
   6. dear
   7. fir
   8. mire
   9. sewer


4. mirror

B. l, tier 6. lawyer

2. Bayer 7. earn


3. merry 8. lower


4. marry 9. sour


5. Mary 10. seer