Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Nigerian + Bruneian : 2093

S1 = Bruneian female
S3 = Nigerian male

Context : S3 is talking about the level of qualifications people in society have, and whether getting extra university degrees is useful.

S3 : if you see so many country you will see somebody hold (.) seven degrees two master three <spel> p h d </spel> . you have not seen it?

Intended Words: hold, seven, two, three

Heard as: old, same with, to, theory

Discussion: The absence of an initial [h] on hold seems to start the problem. In addition, three is not said very clearly, so S1 guessed that maybe it was theory. Perhaps the idea of someone holding seven degrees, including two masters and three PhDs, is not something one would expect in Brunei, so the content of this utterance is a bit unexpected.