Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Nigerian + Bruneian : 2147

S1 = Bruneian female
S3 = Nigerian male

Context : S3 is talking about how practical the courses are in UBD, particularly those offered by FASS (the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences).

S3 : ... <spel> u b d </spel> in year one now i can say if you are in fass you will take logic and thinking

Intended Words: take logic and

Heard as: think logical

Discussion: S3 pronounces initial voiceless TH as [t] (as we can hear in the pronunciation of thinking); so it is not too surprising that S1 sometimes interprets his [t] as voiceless TH, which is why she hears take as think. We might also note that the vowel in take is a close front monophthong. Indeed, the frequency of the first formant is 313 Hz and that of the second formant is 2473 Hz, values that are typical of a close front vowel such as [ɪ].