Sentence examples for native category from inspiring English sources

Listening difficulty is magnified when the unfamiliar regional accent is in a foreign language: The unusual foreign vowels and consonants may mismatch more with native sound categories, and may even fail to match any native category [2].

In the category goodness difference (CG) pattern, two nonnative phones are assimilated into the same native category but differ in their degrees of discrepancy from the native "ideal".

If both phones are not consistently identified as falling within any single native category, they are both uncategorizable (UU; with discrimination performance being dependent on the perceived magnitude or salience of the phonetic difference).

In the single-category (SC) pattern, two nonnative phones are assimilated into the same native category, with poor discrimination being predicted (Best, 1995) and observed, as for the Zulu plosive versus implosive [b]–, both of which English listeners assimilate to their native /b/ (Best et al., 2001).

This paper argues that native categories of the house are useful analytic units when coupled with models of complex society that distinguish between individualistic and institutional sources of political authority.

Due to low sample size in both the heavyweight and miniature breed categories (just 4 individuals in each), Shetlands were added to the native ponies category and heavyweight breeds were added to 'other', giving five final breed categories.

In terms of PAM, there were no categorizations (no categories used >50%%) at all in any condition; that is, no tone was heard/seen as any one native intonation category.

These individuals can be found in the Native royalty category because of their honorable traditional dancing and their knowledge of their heritage.

It is important to note that the Native American category in our analysis contains very few students, and these results may be due to a lack of statistical power, rather than there being no real difference between white students and Native American student performance.

For the native-abundant category we selected the most abundant natives at the site (i.e. Solidago canadensis and Phalaris arundinacea).

Alternatively, there is evidence that tones could be assimilated to specific intonation (prosodic) categories in nontone languages (So & Best 2008, 2011, 2014), although it is quite possible that native intonation categories might not have the same degree of influence as native tone categories (Hallé et al., 2004).