1. FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES Y HUMANIDADES
LICENCIATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA
PRONUNCIATION COURSE I
Pronunciation Assignment 6
Homophones, Homographs and Minimal Pairs
a.
Read
the
phonemic
transcriptions and identify two words
in English that have the same
pronunciation but different spelling.
An example has been done for you.
Give 3 more examples.
b. Find out the two different ways
these words are pronounced in
English and write the phonemic
transcription. Some examples have
been done for you. Give 3 more
examples.
HOMOPHONES
(Same sounds but different spelling)
Meet
Sea
Meat
Knight
Hair
Road
Made
Steal
Die
Flea
Fair
Brake
HOMOGRAPHS
(Same spelling but different sounds)
/miːt /
/siː/
/naɪt/
/heə/
/rəʊd/
/meɪd/
/stiːl/
/daɪ/
/fliː/
/feə/
/breɪk/
Live
Record
Read
Tear
Refuse
Increase
Research
Separate
Dove
Decrease
Wind
MINIMAL PAIRS
(A pair of words with one different sound)
Chess
Let
Cut
Bird
Pin
Read
Peach
Tell
Leave
Swim
Wood
Smile
/tʃes/
Chase
Late
Cat
Beard
Tin
Ride
Pitch
Tale
Live
swam
Wool
Small
/tʃeɪs/
/lɪv/
/ˈrekɔːd /
/ˈlaɪv /
/rɪˈkɔːd/
c.
This
chart
shows
examples of Minimal Pairs: “a
pair of words or utterances which
differ by only one phoneme and
changing one sound leads to a
change in meaning”.
Use a dictionary to identify the
different sound between each
pair of words. Then, write the
phonemic transcription of each
pair.
Complete the chart
examples of your own.
with
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