36 monolingual English-speaking undergraduate participants categorized spoken English sentences (produced with neutral prosody but containing semantic cues to emotion) and French sentences (produced with appropriate prosody but with no semantic cues to emotion) into one of five emotion categories: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, or neutral. Accuracy was higher among sentences expressing all emotions except anger in the semantic condition. Overall, the lowest categorization accuracy was found for sentences expressing fear in the prosodic condition. Although all participants in the current study had normative scores on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, those with relatively high scores displayed lower categorization accuracy for semantic sentences expressing happiness, anger and fear than lower-scoring participants. An extension of the current study comparing this normative sample to a group of individuals with psychopathy will need to account for possible implications of subclinical psychopathic characteristics on vocal affect categorization accuracy.