Ch.+3+Pre-test

Prior to reading the chapter, copy the questions from below, paste them into a word document, complete each section as best you can, and save them to reflect on after reading the chapter. Please send all post-chapter reflections to me upon completion of the chapter.

1.) Reverse the sequence of speech sounds in each of these words. What is the new word? 2.) Identify, from the following list, the primary feature by which each group of minimal pair differ: voicing, nasalization, front/back placement, tenseness/ laxness or affrication
 * teach
 * lip
 * palm
 * sigh
 * easy
 * cash
 * cuts
 * judge
 * snitch
 * pitch
 * speak
 * face
 * tick, chick
 * seek, sick
 * rich, ridge
 * keel, cool
 * whet, when

3.) Some consonant in English never begin a word. List them. (There are two.)

4.) List the consonants in English that must always be followed by a vowel if they are in the beginning of a syllable. These consonants would never be followed by another consonant to make a blend. (There are ten.)

5.) What do the three words in each of these sets of spelling errors have in common? What phonological weakness might they represent?
 * jele (chili), garash (garage), sbent (spend)
 * poit (point), kinchen (kitchen), frut (front)
 * speas (spears), colol (color), tee (tree)