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Specializations => Phonetics and Phonology => Topic started by: songsri.ts on June 12, 2019, 09:12:30 PM
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I would like to ask for help since I am not a pure linguist. I have a list of words and I analyzed them with my Thai friends. We are not sure that we do them correctly, so we post here ask for your kindness to check & correct. Many thanks.
1 a V
2 the CV
3 and VCC
4 is VC
5 your CVC
6 my CV
7 it VC
8 listen CVCV/ CVCR
9 you CV
10 this CVC
11 in VC
12 say CVV
13 make CVC
14 book CVC
15 do CV
16 are V
17 like CVC
18 there CV
19 words CVCC
20 have CVC
21 that CVC
22 on VC
23 draw CCVV
24 to CV
25 point CVVCC
26 write CVC
27 use VC
28 project CCVV CVCC
29 hello CVCVV
30 look CVC
31 what CVC
32 yes CVC
33 has CVC
34 no CV
35 they CV
36 he CV
37 who CV
38 at VC
39 then CVC
40 activity VCCVCVCVV
41 some CVM/ CVC
42 with CVC
43 play CCVV
44 two CCV
45 can CVC
46 number CVM CR
47 sing CVM/ CVC
48 about VCVVC
49 happy CVCVV
50 Isn’t VCRC
51 little CVCB
52 out VC
53 hi CV
54 pictures CVC CRC
55 sentences CVCVCVC
56 she CCV
57 sister CVCCR
58 circle CRCR
59 get CVC
60 we CV
61 word CVC
62 activities VCCVCVCVC
63 does CVC
64 family CVCVCV
65 for CV
66 not CVC
67 time CVC
68 blue CCVV
69 brother CCVCR
70 run CVC
71 show CV
72 these CVC
73 where CVC
74 an VC
75 orange VVCVMC
76 put CVC
77 unit VCVC
78 act VCC
79 pencil CVMRC
80 picture CVCCR
81 answer VMCR
82 bike CVC
83 red CVC
84 big CVC
85 fish CVC
86 friends CCVCCC
87 grammar CCVCVC
88 correct CVCVCC
89 of VC
90 colour CVCR
91 go CV
92 jump CVMC
93 one VCV
94 three CCVV
95 black CCVC
96 work CVC
97 face CVVCV
98 find CVCC
99 here CVVCV
100 me CV
101 tree CCV
102 box CVC
103 christmas CVCCCVC
104 dad CVC
105 kite CVC
106 take CVC
107 cake CVC
108 mother CVCR
109 story CCVVCVV
110 cat CVC
111 fun CVC
112 match CVCC
113 shirt CCVC
114 off VC
115 repeat CVCVVC
116 yellow CVCVV
117 bird CVC
118 cut CVC
119 doesn’t CVCRC
120 dog CVC
121 feelings CVVCVMC
122 friend CCVMC
123 his CVC
124 how CV
125 milk CVCC
126 mum CVC
127 pink CVCC
128 ruler CVCR
129 small CCVC
130 clock CCVVC
131 four CVVC
132 helmet CVM CVC
133 ride CVC
134 room CVVC
135 shoes CVVC
136 ask VVC
137 chant CVVCC
138 green CCVC
139 missing CVCVM
140 park CVVCC
141 pen CVC
142 purple CRCR
143 swim CCVR
144 eyes VC
145 listening CVCVCVM
146 ten CVC
147 walk CVCC
148 apple CVR
149 chair CVC
150 dig CVC
Thanks for your help & kindness
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Hello, and welcome to the forum.
What is the purpose of this exercise? Is this a homework assignment? We don't do that here, because the goal of homework is for you to practice. It is also not a good idea to post answers (or even questions) for homework online, because that just invites other students to look up the answers and copy them, whether they are correct or not, either way not learning for themselves.
If you have a specific question, you can ask it (but not for 150 items in general).
I do see some errors there, or at least inconsistencies.
Are you basing this on the spelling? If so, it's very easy (a, e, i, o, u are vowels "and sometimes y"; the rest are consonants), but that doesn't match up to what you did above (and it useful very informative because English spelling is so different from pronunciation).
If you're basing this on the pronunciation, then the most accurate way to do this will be to first transcribe the words in a phonetic notation (the International Phonetic Alphabet = IPA?), and then just rewrite that in CV format. You can skip this step, but you'll still need to imagine it while writing out "CV...", and it will be good practice for you to learn it the right way like that. And you can make mistakes (exactly which vowel sounds, for example) because all that matters in the end is the "CV" format, but still good to practice.
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The main problem I see is that I only understand C, V in your scheme, and M, R don't have any meaning. The second is that as representations of native speaker pronunciation, they are not correct ("two" is homophonous with "to"). The third is that there are implicitly some arbitrary distinctions, such as using different schemata for "my" versus "say". If this is a spelling conversion, it's clearly wrong ("listen" would be CVCCVC).
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Dear Panini and Daniel,
Thank you very much for your kind suggestions. It is not my homework. I am an English teacher and working on my research. I want to see the monosyllable pattern from the textbooks of grade one which is used in my country, Thailand so I listed 150 highest frequency word.
Thank you.
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OK, I hope our comments were somewhat helpful.
If you need more help, please explain the purpose and rules of this system. Is it somehow based on Thai pronunciation in order to help students learn English?