Figure 1.

Proportion of fricatives perceived as /s/ along the continuum of fricative spectra for all listener groups in Experiment 1. For each cue level, responses are collapsed across all levels of the other context types (i.e., for the gender contrasts, data are collapsed across both /i/ and /u/ vowel contexts, and both levels of the formant transition cue). Black lines depict cue levels expected to produce fewer /s/ responses. Sensitivity to context is demonstrated by the space between same-shaped lines of different colors.