Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 560

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: S2 is talking about how creative his mother was in doing the cooking, especially in the absence of recipe books or other guidance about how to do the cooking.

S2 : there's no measure you know

S1 : that's right

S2 : how many salts you know

S1 : <1> @@@ </1>

S2 : <1> how many </1> sugar (.) and how many thing you know

Intended Words : measure

Heard as : ?

Discussion : S2 has a mid central vowel [ɜ:] rather than [e] in the first syllable of measure, and as a result, S1 was not able to suggest any candidate for the word.