Consonants

Word chains: Place and Manner of Consonants

Below you will find some word chains: all done with consonants. Fill in the word at the end that results from all the changes. use orthography (not transcription) to write your answers.

1.
Begin with the word 'Spain'.
Delete the fricative.
Delete the alveolar consonant.
And you get:

2. Begin with 'France'.
Remove any voiceless consonants.
and you get:

3. Begin with 'Denmark'.
Delete everything in the word that comes before the bilabial. (Leave the bilabial there!)
Move the velar consonant one place of articulation toward the front of the mouth without changing manner or voicing.
Voice the stop.
Turn the stop into a fricative without changing place or voicing.
And you get:

4. Begin with 'Mexico'.
Delete all velar stops.
If you find two vowels beside each other, delete them both.
And you get:

5. Begin with 'Wales'.
Remove any glides.
Replace any liquids with a stop at the same place and with the same voicing.
Move the stop to the front of the word.
And you get:


6. Begin with the word 'knot'.
Remove the nasal.
Voice any velar sounds.
Insert a voiceless bilabial stop before the vowel.
And you get:

7. Begin with the word [taj]
Add a bilabial nasal to the end of the word.
Voice any alveolar sounds.
and you get:

8. Begin with the word 'drank'.
Delete any liquid(s).
Move any alveolar sound one position toward the front of the mouth without changing manner or voicing.
Remove any voiceless sounds.
And you get:

9. Begin with the word 'fifths'.
Remove any consonant which is in front of the alveolar ridge.
Voice the last segment.
And you get:

10. Begin with the word 'than'.
Delete any voiced consonants.
Add a voiceless alveolar stop to the end of the word.
And you get: