Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

I'm giving a mid-term in phonetics, and have asked students to transcribe some words. So far, here are words that at least five students (out of 63, almost all native speakers of American or Canadian English ) don't know:

choral
palisade

sigh....

Geoff


Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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