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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2014 Apr 1;57(2):389–405. doi: 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-S-12-0248

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)

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