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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education

Table 3 Perceptual categorization of Mandarin /y/ in terms of English vowels

From: Language-dependent cue weighting in distinctive feature: evidence from the perception of Mandarin high vowels by native English speakers

Target Mandarin vowel

English vowel

i

ɪ

u

ʊ

Others

y

20% (3)

3.3% (2.5)

70.0% (3.6)

3.3% (3.5)

3.4%

  1. The table presented the percentage of categorization (%) and goodness-of-fit ratings are in parentheses
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