Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Malaysian — HK1 : 1153

S1 = Hong Kong male
S2 = Malaysian female

Context : S1 is discussing why he finds the sunset every day the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.

S1 : it is a philosophical (.) you know phrase (.) you never step in the same river twice. i don’t know whether you heard about it you know (.) what does it mean you know the river is ne- is always there

Intended Words : phrase, river

Heard as : phase, mirror

Discussion : There is no [r] in phrase.

S2 was able to understand river the second time it was said, but she reported that she could not understand the first token. In fact, when the recording was played back to her some months later, she was unable to figure it out until she heard the second token.