Abstract
A recent study [Radhakrishnan and Schmidt (2001)] on the perception of fricative/vowel syllables by English and Mandarin speakers demonstrated that English speakers use the fricative noise while Mandarin speakers use both the fricative noise and vowel transitions in categorizing syllable initial fricatives in their native languages. In this study, cross-language mappings for fricative/vowel syllables were obtained from native English and Mandarin speakers. Native English and Mandarin speakers labeled and rated three sets of tokens from L2. These tokens were (1) fricative noises from four different vowel environments, (2) natural fricative vowel syllables, and (3) F+V combinations in which the fricative noise from one language was combined with vowel transition from the other language. Vowel length was manipulated in the third set of stimuli. Results indicate differences in the cross-language mappings by the two language groups.
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