The labial-coronal effect revisited: Japanese adults say pata, but hear tapa

► Japanese has a labial-coronal bias overall, but a coronal-labial bias for plosives. ► Japanese participants have a labial-coronal bias in production of plosive sequences. ► Japanese participants have a coronal-labial bias in perception of plosive sequences. ► Production bias is articulatory motivated and possibly language-general. ► Perception bias is influenced by language-specific distributions.