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. 2013 Apr;133(4):2397–2411. doi: 10.1121/1.4792358

TABLE IV.

Mean percent identification (and goodness ratings 1–7) of Ma'di syllable-initial bilabial stop consonants by monolinguals and bilinguals in English and Greek language modes.

    Category label    
Group Consonant stimuli b/μπ p/π m + b/μ + μπ m + p/μ + π Criterion met a Categorized as
Monolingual English /ba/ 96.2 1.3 2.5   C /b/
    (4.6) (3.0) (3.5)      
  /pa/ 17.7 70.9 1.3 10.1 C /p/
    (4.2) (3.6) (3.0) (3.9)    
  /mba/ 46.3 1.3 45.0 7.5 U  
    (3.9) (6.0) (4.5) (3.2)    
  /ɓa/ 94.9 1.3 3.8   C /b/
    (4.2) (4.0) (1.7)      
Monolingual Greek /ba/ 63.8 22.5 5.0 8.8 U  
    (5.4) (3.6) (4.3) (3.1)    
  /pa/   100     C /p/
      (6.0)        
  /mba/ 50.0 1.3 37.5 11.3 U  
    (5.3) (1.0) (5.1) (4.7)    
  /ɓa/ 97.5 1.3   1.3 C /b/
    (5.5) (1.0)   (5.0)    
English mode /ba/ 87.3 3.8 7.6 1.3 C /b/
    (5.4) (4.0) (5.6) (6.0)    
  /pa/ 19.2 67.9 2.6 10.3 U  
    (4.2) (4.6) (5.5) (4.0)    
  /mba/ 36.3 3.8 51.3 8.8 U  
    (4.2) (4.0) (5.3) (4.1)    
  /ɓa/ 86.7 5.3 8.0   C /b/
    (5.0) (3.0) (5.5)      
Greek mode /ba/ 71.3 16.3 5.0 7.5 C /b/
    (4.6) (4.2) (3.5) (3.2)    
  /pa/ 3.8 91.0 1.3 3.8 C /p/
    (3.5) (5.2) (3.0) (4.3)    
  /mba/ 50.0 1.3 40.0 8.8 U  
    (3.9) (4.0) (4.6) (2.7)    
  /ɓa/ 89.9 3.8 6.3   C /b/
    (4.5) (1.3) (4.6)      
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< 70% was considered categorized (C), whereas < 70% criterion was uncategorized (U). Boldface indicates most chosen category for C and top two categories for U.