Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Indonesian + Taiwanese — Ind2 : 2076

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Indonesian male

Context: They are talking about adapting to life in Brunei.

S2 : ... of course when (.) when you (.) er you you you correctly put YOURself meaning you have to accept many different thing (.) but then you take advantage of this

Intended Words: put yourself

Heard as: producer

Discussion: The unexepected stress on the first syllable of yourself seems to cause this misunderstanding, as one might expect the intonational nucleus to be on put rather than the following reflexive pronoun yourself. Note that proDUCer (stressed on the second syllable) matches the stress pattern of put YOURself.