Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Malaysian — HK1 : 1061

S1 = Hong Kong male
S2 = Malaysian female

Context: S2 has just asked S1 about the most exciting art project he has been involved in.

S1 : so usually is er is the most important (.) art project i did

S2 : uh-uh

S1 : would be next

S2 : hh

S1 : the next (.) one[t]

S2 : okay

S1 : you know would be the most (.) important

Intended Words : next

Heard as : lext

Discussion : S2 could not initially understand this word, because it starts with [l] rather than [n], as is common in Hong Kong English (Deterding, Wong & Kirkpatrick, 2006). She did eventually understand it when he repeated the word followed by one, even though the latter word has a spurious final [t], something else that is sometimes found in Hong Kong English (Setter & Deterding, 2003) .

References

Deterding, D., Wong, J., & Kirkpatrick, A. (2008). The pronunciation of Hong Kong English. English World-Wide, 29(2), 148–175.

Setter, J., & Deterding, D. (2003). Extra final consonants in the English of Hong Kong and Singapore. In M. J. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS XV (pp. 1875–1877), Barcelona, 3–9 August 2003.