Table 2. The main effect of phonological and acoustic information of vowel (in row) on the probability of perceived prominence by linguistically untrained listeners

Variable est. SE z p-value
(Intercept) –3.32 .16 –20.25 <.001***
/i/ 1.87 .19 9.97 <.001***
/ɪ/ 1.37 .17 8.19 <.001***
/eɪ/ 1.37 .18 7.59 <.001***
/ɛ/ 2.63 .16 16.45 <.001***
/æ/ 1.78 .16 11.21 <.001***
/ɝ/ 1.07 .19 5.60 <.001***
/ʌ/ 2.57 .16 16.52 <.001***
/aɪ/ .55 .16 3.36 <.001***
/aʊ/ 1.93 .19 10.40 <.001***
/u/ .98 .18 5.46 <.001***
/ʊ/ –.38 .44 –.87 n.s.
/oʊ/ 1.61 .23 7.14 <.001***
/ɔ/ 1.99 .19 10.48 <.001***
/ɑ/ 2.15 .17 12.72 <.001***
Max F0 .35 .03 10.51 <.001***
F0 range .28 .03 9.17 <.001***
Inverse phone rate .49 .05 9.70 <.001***
Mean intensity .14 .04 3.86 <.001***