SHS 250 DIACRITICS EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
diacritics in the upper left position - Answers onglides
diacritics above the nucleus - Answers stress, nasal, and lip symbols
diacritics under the main symbol - Answers tongue, laryngeal, and syllabic symbols
diacritics in the upper right position - Answers offglide and stop release symbols
diacritics directly to the right of the main symbol - Answers timing and juncture symbols
[ᵊs] - Answers onglide
[ɜ˞ᵊ] - Answers offglide
̃ - Answers nasalized
͋ - Answers nasal emission
͊ - Answers denasalized
¹ - Answers primary stress
² - Answers secondary stress
³ - Answers tertiary stress
ᵓ - Answers rounded vowel
ᶜ - Answers unrounded vowel
ʷ - Answers labialized consonant
ᵐ - Answers nonlabialized consonant
̽ - Answers inverted
ʰ - Answers aspirated
⁼ - Answers unaspirated
̚ - Answers unreleased
ː - Answers lengthened
> - Answers shortened
̬ - Answers partially voiced
̥ - Answers partially devoiced
̣ - Answers glottalized
̤ - Answers breathy
͓ - Answers frictionalized
̼ - Answers whistled
√ - Answers trilled
̪ - Answers dentalized
ᶊ - Answers palatalized
̯ - Answers lateralized
ᶚ - Answers rhotacized
̰ - Answers velarized
̠ - Answers backed
̟ - Answers fronted
̝ - Answers raised
̞ - Answers lowered
̮ - Answers derhotacized
̩ - Answers syllabic consonant
+ - Answers open juncture
| - Answers internal open juncture
ꜜ - Answers falling terminal juncture
ꜛ - Answers rising terminal juncture
--> - Answers checked/held juncture
* - Answers unintelligible syllable
- Answers questionable segment
phonological processes - Answers can be thought of as rules which, when applied to the phonemes in
the word, dictate a pattern of phonetic outcome
reduplication - Answers bottle becomes [bɑbɑ]
syllable deletion - Answers 'telephone' becomes [tɛfo͡ʊn]
cluster reduction - Answers truck becomes [tʌk]
final consonant deletion - Answers dog becomes [dɑ]
final (obstruent) devoicing - Answers dog becomes [dɑk] (transcribed as [dɑɡ̥])
diacritics in the upper left position - Answers onglides
diacritics above the nucleus - Answers stress, nasal, and lip symbols
diacritics under the main symbol - Answers tongue, laryngeal, and syllabic symbols
diacritics in the upper right position - Answers offglide and stop release symbols
diacritics directly to the right of the main symbol - Answers timing and juncture symbols
[ᵊs] - Answers onglide
[ɜ˞ᵊ] - Answers offglide
̃ - Answers nasalized
͋ - Answers nasal emission
͊ - Answers denasalized
¹ - Answers primary stress
² - Answers secondary stress
³ - Answers tertiary stress
ᵓ - Answers rounded vowel
ᶜ - Answers unrounded vowel
ʷ - Answers labialized consonant
ᵐ - Answers nonlabialized consonant
̽ - Answers inverted
ʰ - Answers aspirated
⁼ - Answers unaspirated
̚ - Answers unreleased
ː - Answers lengthened
> - Answers shortened
̬ - Answers partially voiced
̥ - Answers partially devoiced
̣ - Answers glottalized
̤ - Answers breathy
͓ - Answers frictionalized
̼ - Answers whistled
√ - Answers trilled
̪ - Answers dentalized
ᶊ - Answers palatalized
̯ - Answers lateralized
ᶚ - Answers rhotacized
̰ - Answers velarized
̠ - Answers backed
̟ - Answers fronted
̝ - Answers raised
̞ - Answers lowered
̮ - Answers derhotacized
̩ - Answers syllabic consonant
+ - Answers open juncture
| - Answers internal open juncture
ꜜ - Answers falling terminal juncture
ꜛ - Answers rising terminal juncture
--> - Answers checked/held juncture
* - Answers unintelligible syllable
- Answers questionable segment
phonological processes - Answers can be thought of as rules which, when applied to the phonemes in
the word, dictate a pattern of phonetic outcome
reduplication - Answers bottle becomes [bɑbɑ]
syllable deletion - Answers 'telephone' becomes [tɛfo͡ʊn]
cluster reduction - Answers truck becomes [tʌk]
final consonant deletion - Answers dog becomes [dɑ]
final (obstruent) devoicing - Answers dog becomes [dɑk] (transcribed as [dɑɡ̥])
