Greek Jeopardy

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How much do you know about Pronunciation?
2006 J. Paul Marlowe
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Vocabulary
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Final Jeopardy!
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Vocabulary 100

• What is a syllable?
• a) A single, uinterrupted sound
• b) sounds linked together
• c) a phoneme
• d) a sound you can not hear

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Vocabulary 200

• How are bilabial sounds, such as /p/ , /b/ , and
  /m/ made? (click each letter to hear the sound)
• a) with air passing through the nose
• b) with the back of the tounge
• c) using the teeth
• d) using both lips

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Vocabulary 300

• Which of pictures depicts the alveolar sound,
  which produces /t/ , /d/ , /l/ , /n/ ?
• a) b)
• c) d)

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Vocabulary 400

• Which word describes this part of the mouth just
  behind the upper teeth ?
• a) flap
• b) glottis
• c) hard palate
• d) soft palate

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Vocabulary 500

• Which pair of words make a homophone?
• a) pretty attractive
• b) slow fast
• c) fir fur
• d) polish (to make shiny) Polish (from Poland)

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Vocabulary 100-Answer

• Syllable A unit of spoken language consisting
  of a single uninterrupted sound.

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Vocabulary 200-Answer

• bilabial Describes sounds where both lips are
  involved in production,
• e.g. /p/ , /b/ , and /m/

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Vocabulary 300-Answer

• b)
• Alveolar Describes the sound where the tongue
  either touches or approaches the roof of the
  mouth just behind the upper teeth, e.g. /t/ , /d/
  , /l/ , /n/ .

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Vocabulary 400-Answer

• Hard Palate The hard part of the roof of the
  mouth just behind the tooth ridge

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Vocabulary 500-Answer

• Homophones Words that sound the same but have
  different spellings and meanings.

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Consonants 100

• What is a consonant?
• a) the letters a, e, i, o, u
• b) a vowel
• c) all letter besides vowels
• d) all letters including vowels

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Consonants 200

• When /s/ comes before the vowels /I/ as in sip or
  /iy/ as in sea, Japanese speakers often insert
  which consonant in between?
• a) b
• b) l
• c) r
• d) h

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Consonants 300

• Which of the following consonant sounds does not
  exist in Japanese?
• a) n
• b) c
• c) v
• d) l

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Consonants 400
Which consonant sound requires you to place your
tounge in the following position, moving air
around the sides of the tounge as you make the
sound? a) /b/ b) /l/ c) /g/ d) /r/
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Consonants 500

• What do you need to do in order to pronounce the
  consonant /v/?
• a) the toungue touches the upper teeth and is
  quickly pulled back
• b) air passes out of the mouth over the sides of
  the tounge
• c) curl your toungue toward the back of the mouth
• d) placing the upper teeth on the lower lip

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Consonants 100-Answer

• Consonant A speech sound produced by an
  obstruction of the air stream represented in
  English by any letter other than a, e, i, o, and
  u.

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Consonants 200-Answer

• /h/ Japanese speakers often insert the h sound,
  making English words such as sip and sea
  sound like ship and she.

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Consonants 300-Answer

• /v/ While Japanese has a /b/ sound, it has no
  /v/ and Japanese learners will often substitute
  /b/ for /v/, producing berry instead of very.

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Consonants 400-Answer

• /l/Japanese only has one liquid sound between
  the English /r/ and /l/. Words such as light
  sound like right and alive like arrive or
  vice versa. The /l/ sound is made with the tip of
  the tongue touching the tooth ridge while the /r/
  sound is made with the tongue touching no part of
  the roof of the mouth.

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Consonants 500-Answer

• /v/ this sound is made by placing the upper
  teeth on the lower lip

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Listening 100

• Which of the following best represents this
  sentence (click here to listen)
• a) He cant do that!
• b) He can do that!
• c) He cannot do that!
• d) He could do that!

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Listening 200

• Which of the following best represents the
  meaning of this sentence (click here to listen)?
• a) I dont want to see him anymore
• b) I wish I could see him again
• c) Im not going to see him anymore
• d) I must see him again

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Listening 300

• Which of the following sentences matches what you
  hear (click here for listening)
• a) I went to a rake yesterday in my fathers
  track
• b) I went to a lake yesterday in my fathers
  track
• c) I went to a rake yesterday in my fathers
  track
• d) I went to a lake yesterday in my fathers
  truck

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Listening 400

• Which of the following sentences matches what you
  hear (click here for listening)
• a) Here is a vase for you to throw a ball at
• b) Here is a vase for you to throw a bowl at
• c) Here is a base for you to throw a ball at
• d) Here is a base for you to throw a bowl at

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Listening 500

• Which phonetic spelling is correct for the word
  criticize (click here to listen)?
• a) /krit?saiz/
• b) /krit?sais/
• c) /krit?sait/
• d) /kridisaiz/

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Listening 100-Answer

• b) He can do that!
• It is often difficult for non-native
  speakers to differentiate between the /t/ and /d/
  sounds

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Listening 200-Answer

• c) Im not going to see him anymore.
• Native speakers of English often link words
  together producing a new sound. Other examples
  include
• Have to hafta
• Want to wanna
• Hast to hasta
• Got to gotta

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Listening 300-Answer

• I went to the lake yesterday in my fathers
  truck It is often difficult to hear the
  difference between the /l/ and /r/ sounds and the
  ? and ? sounds

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Listening 400-Answer

• c) Here is a base for you to throw a ball at
• Japanese speakers often confuse the /b/
  and /v/ consonants. Also, it is difficult for
  Japanese to listen for the difference between the
  /bo?l/ of bowl and /b?l/ sound of ball

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Listening 500-Answer

a) /krit?saiz/
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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 100

• Where is the stress when pronouncing the word
  America?
• a) Ámerica
• b) América
• c) Ameríca
• d) Americá

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Stress, Ryhthm, and Intonation 200
Which words are NOT stressed in the sentence
Mikes glad to hear it! a) Mikes, glad b)
glad, hear c) to and it d) Mikes, glad, hear
Daily Double
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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 300

• Which intonation shows happiness?
• a) Really??
• b) Really? ?
• c) Really? ?
• d) Really? ? ?

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 400

• Which sentence use the correct stress?
• a) Fresh proDUCE is expensive in the winter
• b) You need to strum in order to PROduce a sound
  on guitar
• c) The new company will proDUCE the goods more
  cheaply
• d) He can PROduce them by next month

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 500

• Which question matches best to this answer John
  CANT go to school.
• a) What cant John do?
• b) Who cant go?
• c) Why doesnt John go?
• d) Where cant John go?

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 100-Answer

• b) América
• Stressed syllables in English are marked by
  length and loudness

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 200-Answer

• c) to, it
• Generally, content words that carry meaning
  like Mike, glad, and hear are stressed
  while function words that are grammatical like
  to and it go unstressed

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 300-Answer

• a) Really?? indicates happiness
• Really? ? indicates indifference
• Really? ? indicates disappointment
• Really? ? ?indicates suprise

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 400-Answer

• c) The new company will proDUCE the goods more
  cheaply

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Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation 500-Answer

• C) Why doesnt John go?
• Stress on the word cant focuses on the
  reason
• Stress on the word John indicates who
• Stress on the word school indicates where
• Stress on the word(s) go to indicates what

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Final Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy

• Which sentence illustrates the correct linking of
  sounds?
• a) He-taught us-a-lot about language
• b) He taught-us a lot about-language
• c) He taught-us a lot-about language
• d) He-taught us a lot about-language

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Final Jeopardy-Answer
b) He taught-us a lot about-language Learners of
English struggle to link word properly in
connected speech often resulting in choppy speech
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