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Four groups of Asian language speakers [Cantonese (NC), Japanese (NJ), Korean (NK), Vietnamese (NV)] were compared for their accuracy to discriminate English and Thai word‐final stop contrasts (/p‐t/, /p‐k/, /t‐k/). Word‐final stops can be either audibly released or unreleased in English, whereas they are always unreleased in Thai. English (but not Thai) was familiar to all participants. In Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese, word‐final stops are unreleased as in Thai. Japanese, on the other hand, does not permit word‐final stops. All groups were more accurate in discriminating English than Thai contrasts. However, their response patterns differed according to their first languages (L1). NK was almost as accurate in Thai as in English while NJ was much better in English than in Thai. NC and NV were intermediate between NK and NJ. These findings suggest that experience with specific (i.e., unreleased) and native phonetic realization of sounds may be essential for accurate discrimination of word‐final stop contrasts. However, in order to explain the differences between NC, NK, and NV in their discrimination of unreleased Thai stops, it is necessary to examine the robustness of phonetic cues to word‐final stops in their L1s. The role of L1 experience in cross‐language perception is discussed.

Cross-language perception of word-final stops: A comparison of Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese listeners