0 past simple and past participle of mispronounce
The children were significantly worse at identifying words that had their metrical stress pattern reversed than words that were mispronounced in other ways.
These mispronounced words were discarded from the sample.
Although a mispronounced word would activate the wrong set of input phonemes, there is no way that the error can be detected.
This is important because the underlying representation of both mispronounced and correctly pronounced words is unclear.
The skilled readers seemed to have more knowledge of how the word should be spelled, even if they (rarely) mispronounced a word.
Typically, a word was mispronounced in the first of the four repetitions and then correctly pronounced in subsequent ones.
If consonants were mispronounced as singletons, then this same pronunciation in clusters was not penalized.
Even though the students often mispronounced what they had heard, the guru let them continue so that the rhythm of their recitation was not repeatedly interrupted.
