Table 2.
Percentage of identification of native vowels and average rating for correctly identified vowels. Averages are calculated over the 9 variants of each vowel category for all participants. Note that /ø/, /ə/, and /œ/ answers were grouped together as well as /o/ and /ɔ/ Rating of the quality of pronunciation of correctly identified native vowels. The rating scale was between 1 (bad pronunciation) and 7 (good pronunciation).
% of identification as
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Average rating | |||||||||
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/i/ | /y/ | /u/ | /e/ | /ə/, /ø/, or /œ/ | /a/ | /ε/ | /o/ or /ɔ/ | Non-native | ||
/i/ | 97.8 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 6.1 |
/y/ | 0.4 | 98.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 6.1 |
/u/ | 0 | 0 | 95.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.4 | 5.9 |
/e/ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96.3 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 0 | 0.4 | 5.8 |
/ə/ | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 95.6 | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 3.3 | 4.8 |
/a/ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 |