Table 3.
Perceptual assimilation of NG and PF back, rounded vowels to AE categories: Study 2—Sentence materials. Modal AE V is the AE vowel chosen most often, summing over all AE listeners. Percent is the overall percent of trials on which the modal response was chosen. (Rating) in the overall median goodness rating on modal response trials, summed over listeners. # of Ss is the number of AE listeners (out of 16) selecting a single response on at least 7 of 9 trials.
| Labial context | Alveolar context | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG V | Modal AE V | Categorization | # of Ss | NG V | Modal AE V | Categorization | # of Ss | |||
| Percent | (Rating) | Percent | (Rating) | |||||||
| (A) | uː | uː | 86 | (6) | 15 | uː | uː | 67 | (5) | 9 |
| o: | oʊ | 97 | (7) | 15 | o: | oʊ | 74 | (7) | 11 [oʊ], 3 [ɔː] | |
| ʊ | oʊ | 47 | (6.5) | 1 [uː] | ʊ | ʊ | 38 | (5) | 2 [ʊ], 1 [uː] | |
| ɔ | ʌ | 30 | (6) | 2 [ɔː], 1 [oʊ], 1 [ʌ] | ɔ | ɔː | 61 | (6) | 8 [ɔː] | |
| Labial context | Alveolar context | |||||||||
| PF V | Modal AE V | Categorization | # of Ss | PF V | Modal AE V | Categorization | # of Ss | |||
| Percent | (Rating) | Percent | (Rating) | |||||||
| (B) | u | uː | 94 | (6) | 16 | u | uː | 92 | (6) | 14 |
| o | oʊ | 60 | (6) | 7 [oʊ], 3 [uː] | o | oʊ | 71 | (6) | 10 [oʊ], 1 [uː], 1 [ɔː] | |
| ɔ | ʌ | 38 | (7) | 4 [ʌ], 2 [oʊ], 1 [ɔː] | ɔ | oʊ | 47 | (5) | 5 [ɔː], 4 [oʊ] | |