Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 38

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: They are talking about S2's name.

S2 : and all my brother and sisters you know. they have no first name. english first name. my sister is jane? jean? and vivian? my brother is keith. only me. i refuse to have any english you know first name @@@

S1 : that's <1> really interesting </1>

S2 : <1> i only let you in to </1> my <2> chinese </2> @@@

S1 : <2> yes </2>

Intended Words : you know

Heard as : no

Discussion : This appears to be contradictory. S2 says his brother and sisters have no first name, but then he goes on to list their first names. And that is how S1 transcribed it.

To understand this, we need to note S2's habit of saying you know very regularly, often inserting two or three tokens of this phrase into a single utterance. Therefore maybe he is really saying 'they have you know a first name'.

S2 confirmed that this was what he intended to say when this clip was subsequently played back to him.