phonological analysis preliminary test, spring 2026

ideal answers

  1. Its members share their place of articulation.
  2. climb and wrong
  3. /nɡ/
  4. ago and Adam
  5. bill
  6. FLEECE and NEAR occur word finally, KIT does not
  7. because there are no geminate consonants in English
  8. because the first vowel in /dirékt/ is not stressed, but it is in /dajrékt/
  9. because /j/ is moraic before a consonant
  10. because a long vowels/smoothing does not occur in unstressed position
  11. the Onset Maximization Principle
  12. obstruents
  13. unstressed
  14. heavy
  15. fini<sh> or /fini<ʃ>/