do your phonetics lecturers also use "why don't you try to produce it" as the all-purpose solution to our (relevant) questions. like i asked mine whether vocal fry is more feasible for people with lower pitched voices and they invited me to try it out myself. yeah. it does seem more feasible for lower pitched voices.
Mine have never done that, actually. Not even at my last uni, but each class only had about four students there, so everything was designed to be very discussion-like and not class-like.
But my current phonology lecturer has identified various regional accents in the class and will call on random students to say certain things when he wants to make a point.
I'm lucky he doesn't know much about Welsh Valleys accents
