This paper describes a perception experiment with L1 Polish and L1 English listeners on the affrication of initial English /tr/ and /dr/ (TR) consonant clusters. The goal was to test phonological predictions formulated within the Onset Prominence (OP) framework. OP offers two distinct structural configurations for representing rising sonority onset clusters. One predicts synchronous cluster articulation in English, giving rise to affrication, while the other predicts asynchronous cluster articulation in Polish. Two groups of listeners performed a two-alternative forced choice identification task on stimuli that included affricated clusters, unaffricated clusters, affricates, and CəC-initial words. For L1 English listeners, the unaffricated cluster-initial items induced the slowest responses. For L1 Polish listeners, the lack of affrication facilitated cluster identification, while the CəC-initial words induced the slowed responses. The results suggest cross-language interaction by which Polish listeners equate L1 unaffricated clusters with L2 CəC-initial words, in accordance with the OP proposal.

这篇论文描述了一个关于波兰语和一语英语听者对初始英语 /tr/ 和 /dr/ (TR) 辅音簇塞音的感知实验。目标是测试在起始突出 (OP) 框架内制定的语音预测。OP 提供了两种不同的结构配置来表示上升的响度起始簇。一个预测英语中的同步簇发音，会产生塞音，而另一个预测波兰语中的异步簇发音。两组听众对包括擦音簇、非擦音簇、塞擦音和 CəC 声母词在内的刺激执行了两种选择的强制选择识别任务。对于 L1 英语听众，未发音的簇首项目引起的反应最慢。对于 L1 波兰语听众，擦音的缺乏促进了簇识别，而 CəC 开头的词则导致反应变慢。结果表明，根据 OP 提案，波兰听众通过跨语言交互将 L1 非摩擦音簇与 L2 CəC 声母词等同起来。