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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2018 Jun 12;117:261–270. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.009

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
Average rating
/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
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