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Exercises for Chapter 5.

A         List the strong and weak forms of ten words.

B         Give new examples of several kinds of assimilations.

C         Give five more examples of assimilations.

D         Make up phrases showing how words can two different stress patterns.

E          Show which syllables have tonic accents, stress, and full vowels.

F            Historial changes in word stress.

G         Sets of words showing stress alternations.

H            Indicate stress and intonation patterns.

I           Make a segmental and a ToBI transcription