This 36th collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written papers, demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

Test Question—Articulatory Descriptions

Answers—[w]

• High backward semi-vowel. There is complete closure, allowing the air to escape smoothly.

• Upper back rounded approximant.

• Voiceless low back rounded voiced velar approximant

Answers—[k]

• The plosives actively use different parts of the mouth and tongue, unlike fricitives.

• [k] is a plossive and a black velar at that.

• The tongue is just detracted and raised.

• The active articulator reacts to the passive one.

• It’s voiceless: [k̥̥].

Answers—[eɪ]

• The tongue is retracted to the high front unrounded region.

• The lips close at the end (closing diphthong).

• The tongue glides up without audible friction.

• The body of the dipthong is raised. The lips are spread slightly horizontally.

• I am rather bad with feeling the different parts of how sounds are being produced.

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