Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 875

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: S2 is talking about different kinds of art, and the experiences of people when they see it.

S2 : ... so you know like (.) oh if you touch it and then you find oh this is a (.) paper you know

S1 : mm

S2 : collage on the top you know (.) and (.) then you're curious you know they ask questions

S1 : @@

S2 : and ...

Intended Words : collage, curious

Heard as : come rough, kill it

Discussion : The pronunciation of collage is fairly standard, though it may have [dʒ] rather than the expected [ʒ] at the end. However, the main problem is that S1 does not know this word, as she subsequently confirmed.

The pronunciation of curious is [kɪrɪs], though perhaps the biggest problem is that it is spoken quite fast.

S1 subsequently confirmed that the reason she laughed is because she thought it funny that you would kill something by asking questions.