Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Chinese + Bruneian — Ch : 1781

S1 = Brunei female
S2 = Chinese female

Context: They are talking about tastes in music.

S1: erm what about rock music

S2: no:

S1: no @@

S2: too noisy

S1: okay @@

Intended Word: noisy

Heard as: loisy

Discussion: The initial consonant is [l] rather than [n]. Even in the context of rock music, S1 could not understand this for a moment. Although from her laughter she seems to understand it, she subsequently reported that she could not in fact understand this word.