Some of the lessons we learned:
- we aren't doing as well as we thought, especially in the differences between [aw] and [ah]
- we are making some careless mistakes
- we need to practice diction and review the reasons why we miss things
Most commonly missed words on test:
- stall
- Lord
- call
- salt
- coffin
- quality
Recurring and frustrating errors:
- using [c] for [k]
- using [x] for [ks]
- remembering that a word that ends in [i] is usually modified to [I] if it is an unstressed syllable (quality)
One of the evolving lessons involves wisdom:
- sometimes, we make mistakes because of our particular dialect
- sometimes, we make mistakes because we out-think ourselves and modify everything to [ah]
- sometimes, diction sources (Wall textbook, private teachers, pronouncing dictionary) are at odds about proper pronunciations
- we have to learn to make the best choice
Here are the words and ideas you submitted to me. I will choose many of them for the re-test of Chapter five on Thursday, October 14.
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