Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 443

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: S2 is talking about learning art when he was at school.

S2 : ... the primary school is all catholic school (.) so they have you know the father you know from italy (.) you know couple you know father (.) you know couple fathers you know is really (.) er (.) artistic

Intended Words : Italy, couple

Discussion : S1 was unable to make a guess for Italy and the first token of couple, and she left two question marks in her transcription. For the second token of couple, she guessed called.

Italy is said as [ɪti] with two syllables instead of three, while couple is said quite fast, and there is no clear [l] in the word. In fact, the second token is just a single syllable: [kaʊ].