Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

ASEAN — Gp6 : 875

MLao : you know er at the time that erm (.) tsk (.) tsunami occurs there (.) there was some problem in my country (0.9)

FPhil : mm

MMal : what problem

MLao : yeah we’ve some problem we have big holes (.) in in some areas

MMal : horns? sorry?

MLao : hole. you know hole[t]?

FPhil : what hone?

MLao : yeah big hole

MMal : @@

FPhil : what’s a hone

MMal : sorry

MLao : <spel> h o l e </spel> something like this

FPhil : yeah

MMal : holes?

MLao : yeah

MMal : OH you mean a HOLE in the GROUND

MLao : yeah

Intended Word: hole

Heard as: horn, hone

Discussion: MLao has [n] rather than [l] at the end of this word. Though he realises the others do not understand him, he does not know how to fix the problem, and he tries putting a [t] on the end. Finally he resorts to spelling it out.