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

TABLE V.

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

    Category label    
Group Consonant stimuli d/ντ t/τ n + d/ν + ντ nt/ν + τ Criterion met a Categorized as
Monolingual English /da/ 97.5   2.5   C /d/
    (4.2)   (3.0)      
  /ta/ 72.3 21.5 1.5 4.6 C /d/
    (3.9) (3.2) (1.0) (3.0)    
  /nda/ 46.8 2.5 48.1 2.5 U  
    (3.7) (3.0) (4.1) (2.5)    
  /ɗa/ 96.6 1.7 1.7   C /d/
    (3.6) (1.0) (2.0)      
Monolingual Greek /da/ 77.5   10.0 12.5 C /d/
    (5.3)   (3.8) (3.3)    
  /ta/ 9.8 83.6   6.6 C /t/
    (4.5) (5.8)   (3.8)    
  /nda/ 47.5   42.5 10.0 U  
    (4.8)   (4.8) (4.9)    
  /ɗa/ 82.1   1.8 16.1 U  
    (4.2)   (4.0) (3.8)    
English /da/ 92.4   7.6   C /d/
Mode   (5.3)   (5.7)      
  /ta/ 51.3 42.1   6.6 U  
    (4.5) (4.1)   (5.5)    
  /nda/ 31.2 1.3 54.5 13.0 U  
    (4.5) (3.0) (5.1) (4.7)    
  /ɗa/ 82.1   16.4 1.5 C /d/
    (3.5)   (5.0) (4.0)    
Greek /da/ 80.0 2.5 3.8 13.8 C /d/
Mode   (4.6) (2.5) (5.7) (2.5)    
  /ta/ 12.3 78.5 3.1 6.2 C /t/
    (4.3) (5.0) (4.0) (3.3)    
  /nda/ 36.7   39.2 24.1 U  
    (3.5)   (4.7) (3.2)    
  /ɗa/ 66.7 4.8 9.5 19.0 U  
    (3.1) (3.3) (3.2) (2.9)    
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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.