test tips Flashcards
mark first thing
SBE or GA
Begin and end your transcription in
/ / barres obliques
mark primary and secondary stresses on
on the correct syllable of orthographic copy before starting
no draft is needed, if
you have been working from an orthographic transcription, but double, triple, quadruple check the phonemic transcription because it has to be pretty much perfect
include stresses before or after every stressed syllable
before
retain word spaces
yes
capitals?
no
punctuation marks
no
allophones or unnecessary details?
no
intonation and syllable boundaries?
no
forgetting words
it will happen for sure, so don’t be the one who let’s it happen
mark stress on
all lexical words, even monosyllabic ones, and on every polysyllabic grammatical word
primary stress
are indicated on every lexical word, even if it’s monosyllabic, as well as every grammatical word of at least 2 syllables
secondary stress
is transcribed
*on compound nouns,
*polysyllabic words that have one,
*phrasal verbs, even if the jury accepts two primary accents
happy vowel
neturalized vowel /i/ on the graphemes <y> ,<ey> <ie>, <ee>, and <i></i></ee></ie></ey></y>
e.g.
*for body, happy, Charlie, valley, Chili, committee (end of word)
*happier, easiest (mid-word)
*re- pre- de- prefixes when these are unstressed and precede a vowel (e.g. react, preoccupied, deactivate)
*disyllabic suffixes (-iate, -ious)
*weak forms of grammatical words he, she, we, me, be, as well as the non-stressed the before a vowel
thank you vowel
neutralized /u/ is observed in weak forms of prepositions or personal prnouns such as to, you, and syllabic suffixes such as -uous (tenuous, conspicuous) as well as (graduate, infatuation)
Crochets ou barres obliques ?
Barres obliques
Avoid unnecessary repetition
yes
Consonnes syllabiques ?
Conseillées
Glottal stops ?
Non
Voyelles neutralisées /i/ - /u/ ?
Oui
Division syllabique ?
Non
Intonation ?
Non
Les questions portent sur quoi ?
*Règles d’accentuation (mots simples et composés).
*Règles graphématiques et phonotactiques.
*Les phénomènes typiques de la parole continue : assimilation, élision, r de liaison, r intrusif, …
*Transcription phonétique étroite et justification du choix des allophones.
*Comparaison entre variétés d’anglais (britannique et américain).
*Transcription de l’intonation d’un passage et justification des choix.
to name a consonant, always use the following order:
- Voice
- Place of articulation
- Manner of articulation
e.g. voiceless alveolar plosive, voiced labiodental fricative
voiceless alveolar plosive
[t]
voiced labiodental fricative
[f]
Which consonant is never found word-initially?
/ŋ/
Which consonants are never found word-finally?
/h, j, w/
In SBE, /r/
phonotactic constraints
rules specifying restrictions for the combination of sounds in a given language.
diphthongs
dynamic vowels, meaning they have a starting
point and they move
towards a target.
