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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2010 Feb;24(2):122–140. doi: 10.3109/02699200903440975

Table IV.

Sample story for treated sound /ɡ/.

RW prose NW prose
His name is Gary. Gary has a moustache and a long beard! His name is ɡɛbi. ɡɛbi has a moustache and a long beard!
The chicken’s name is Gabby. Gabby is wearing a silly hat! The chicken’s name is ɡæni. ɡæni is wearing a silly hat!
He is wearing a wizard’s gown. His gown matches his hat! Look, he is wearing a ɡaʊd. His is wearing a ɡaʊd on each hand.
He pointed and said, ‘I will guide’. The yellow one can guide them in the right direction. They wanted to get away, so they started to ɡaɪb. Look how they can ɡaɪb away.
Everyone has a gadget. Two are yellow and one is green! Look at each wizard’s gadget. Each wizard has a ɡænɛd. Two are yellow and one is green! Look at each wizard’s ɡænɛd.
He raised his hand and said, ‘Let me guess’. He like to raise his hand and guess. He pointed to his sharp ɡɛm. He has another sharp ɡɛm on the other side of his mouth!
They said, ‘We will turn you into a goon!’ It is not nice to turn someone into a goon! They started to ɡud. The stars shoot out when they start to ɡud.
They said, ‘This is not good’. Sitting outside in the rain and getting wet is never good! They said, ‘This feels funny, it is so ɡʊm’. They do not like sitting outside on the ɡʊm ground!