Language Transcription Practice

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Language is a science, an art, and a social object. While we spend great efforts trying to understand the complex components that make language possible, we should not stop appreciating its artistic value and social value. In our transcription practice this week, let’s pay tribute to social movements from all corners of the world by transcribing a few lines from a beautiful poem Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, a black American female poet. Language Transcription Practice

Out of the huts of history’s shame 

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

You can find the rest of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

Provide the transcriptions in the blank lines below:

Out       of       the            huts             of                history’s                shame

____    ____   ____         ____            ____            ________              ______

I                                 rise

_____                _____

Up from            a          past    that’s        rooted          in       pain

___ ______        ____    ________      _____       ______        ___    _____

I rise

Question 1

Consider the following data from Language X and answer the related questions. Language Transcription Practice

1. [tinta] ‘dye’
2. [tɛnda] ‘tent’
3. [dant͡sa] ‘dance’
4. [neɾo] ‘black’
5. [d͡ʒɛnte] ‘people’
6. [sapone] ‘soap’
7. [tiŋgo] ‘I dye’
8. [tɛŋgo] ‘I keep’
9. [fuŋgo] ‘mushroom’
10. [bjaŋka] ‘white’
11. [aŋke] ‘also’
12. [faŋgo] ‘mud’

1. Find all the minimal pairs in the above data. (4 points),
2. Based only on the data above are [n ŋ] separate phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme? Explain your answer. (4 points)

Language is a science, an art, and a social object. While we spend great efforts trying to understand the complex components that make language possible, we should not stop appreciating its artistic value and social value. Language Transcription Practice

Language is a science, an art, and a social object. While we spend great efforts trying to understand the complex components that make language possible, we should not stop appreciating its artistic value and social value. In our transcription practice this week, let’s pay tribute to social movements from all corners of the world by transcribing a few lines from a beautiful poem Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, a black American female poet.