Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Nigerian + Bruneian : 942

S1 = Bruneian female
S2 = Bruneian male
S3 = Nigerian male

Context : S3 is talking about the system of educaton in his country. 6334 represents the structure, with 6 years in primary school, 3 years in lower secondary, 3 years in upper secondary, and 4 years in tertiary.

S1 : @

S3: so it's complicated a little <1> bit </1>

S2: <1> yeah </1>

S3 : so you understand. that is the way we we use six three three four

Intended Words: 6334

Heard as: his (tere) for

Discussion: S1 was completely bemused by this, and just guessed at the sounds, enclosing tere in brackets to indicate she could not understand it.

Indeed, even when ones knows what he is saying, it is hard to parse it as '6334'. One problem is that three begins with [t] rather than [θ]. Second, it is hard to hear two separate tokens of three.