24.900 – Introduction to linguistics 

Quiz 2 – Phonetics and phonology 

April 20, 2005 

 
Name:   

Section: 
 
 

1. Can you insert the head that is on the website?  If you can, let's ask  
them to name five articulators. 

2. Identifying phones:  Write the IPA symbol for the sound described: 

 
a. voiceless alveolar fricative 
/s/ 
 
b. voiced velar nasal 
/

N

/ 

 
c. high back rounded tense vowel 
/u/ 
 
d. voiceless alvelolar lateral liquid 
/

l8

/ 

 
e. voiceless velar stop 
/k/ 
 
f. voiced interdetnal fricative 
/

T

/ 

3. Transcription:  Transcribe the following English words and names into IPA: 

 
a. chemistry 
/

kHEmIst®i

/ 

 
b. Susan Hockfield 
/

suwz´n hAkfi…d

/ 

 
c. rushing 
/

®√SIN

/