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Sounds and meaning

Task A - How good are you at spotting rhymes and eye rhymes?

See if you can get all the examples below correct.
[press the submit button when you are done to see if you are right]

To help you begin to get used to the phonemic alphabet we will give half of them to you in a spelling version and half in a phonemic alphabet version. If you are not sure of any of the phonemic symbols, refer to the Phonemic Alphabet checksheet.

Because the spelling/phoneme relation is an inexact one in many languages, phoneticians have developed phonetic and phonemic alphabets to represent sounds accurately when they transcribe them. These alphabets use the symbols associated with the English spelling system (but with a consistent relationship between the transcription symbol and the sound it represents). One thing to watch out for is that different traditions of phonetics and phonology use slightly different terminology and have a few transcription symbols which differ too. The set of characters we adopt is the one used by Gimson in his Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. But you might find a few differences between the set we use and what you might read elsewhere.

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