From the Archives!—The XT-17 Uzi/Reel-to-Reel Recorder—The SpecGram Archive Elves™ SpecGram Vol CLXVIII, No 2 Contents Cultural Tones—Semantically significant suprasegmentals in the Kamgala language—H.D. Onesimus

Unabating Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
(because they aren’t actually true)


gathered at great personal risk of
psycholinguistic harm from actual student papers
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

This 35th 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—Syllables

Why would a syllable like [mukt] be a better syllable than [mutk]?

Answers

More to come...

From the Archives!The XT-17 Uzi/Reel-to-Reel RecorderThe SpecGram Archive Elves™
Cultural TonesSemantically significant suprasegmentals in the Kamgala languageH.D. Onesimus
SpecGram Vol CLXVIII, No 2 Contents