Table I.
Overall identification rates (in % correct) by vowel category for each NC and WI child listener group responding to both native and non-native dialect vowels. Results for adult listeners reported in Jacewicz & Fox (2012) are included for comparison.
| Vowel intended by speaker | NC listeners | WI listeners | Total | Jacewicz & Fox (2012) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Native dialect | Non-native dialect | Native dialect | Non-native dialect | |||
| /i/ | 73.9 | 79.5 | 92.3 | 77.7 | 80.9 | 86.9 |
| /ɪ/ | 67.2 | 62.5 | 71.1 | 55.7 | 64.1 | 73.8 |
| /e/ | 83.3 | 39.2 | 52.1 | 69.5 | 61.0 | 69.8 |
| /ε/ | 85.0 | 64.4 | 84.6 | 77.2 | 77.8 | 84.8 |
| /æ/ | 92.2 | 79.2 | 86.7 | 87.7 | 86.5 | 84.1 |
| /ɑ/ | 51.7 | 23.9 | 39.2 | 49.2 | 41.0 | 57.9 |
| /▯/ | 54.2 | 29.2 | 33.6 | 48.5 | 41.4 | 54.3 |
| /▯▯/ | 98.6 | 96.1 | 95.1 | 94.4 | 96.1 | 98.7 |
| /aɪ/ | 62.2 | 75.8 | 87.7 | 54.1 | 70.0 | 69.2 |
| /o/ | 87.5 | 78.3 | 85.6 | 85.9 | 84.3 | 96.5 |
| /ʊ/ | 91.4 | 90.3 | 91.8 | 87.4 | 90.2 | 96.9 |
| /u/ | 77.5 | 64.5 | 66.7 | 56.7 | 66.4 | 89.9 |
| Total | 77.1 | 65.3 | 73.9 | 70.3 | 71.7 | 80.2 |