Hungarian EFL Learners’ Perception of Intrusive R in English

This study investigates the perception of Intrusive-R among Hungarian learners of English. 24 participants performed an AX discrimination task focusing on sentence pairs differing in that one sentence included an Intrusive-R. Of 264 instances of detectable Intrusive-R’s, participants accurately identified 58 (21.97), and in 78 other cases (29.55%) they managed to find the difference but could only identify it indirectly. Factors influencing perception included stress and the presence of another /r/ near the intrusive one.