How deaf are French speakers to stress?

Article Article scientifique Article How deaf are French speakers to stress? eng 2016 author Michelas Amandine 818650 author Frauenfelder Ulrich Hans 22332 author Schön Daniele author Dufour Sophie 101910 1333-1342 10.1121/1.4944574 0001-4966 http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/139/3/10.1121/1.4944574 This event-related potential study examined whether French listeners use stress at a phonological level when discriminating between stressed and unstressed words in their language. Participants heard five words and made same/different decisions about the final word (male voice) with respect to the four preceding words (different female voices). Compared to the first four context words, the target word was (i) phonemically and prosodically identical (/Su/-/Su/; control condition), (ii) pho- nemically identical but differing in the presence of a primary stress (/Su'/-/Su/), (iii) prosodically identical but phonemically different (/So/-/Su/), or (iv) both phonemically and prosodically different (/So'/-/Su/). Crucially, differences on the P200 and the following N200 components were observed for the /Su'/-/Su/ and the /So/-/Su/ conditions compared to the /Su/-/Su/ control condition. Moreover, on the N200 component more negativity was observed for the /So/-/Su/ condition compared to the /Su'/-/Su/ conditions, while no difference emerged between these two conditions on the earlier P200 component. Crucially, the results suggest that French listeners are capable of creating an abstract representation of stress. However, as they receive more input, participants react more strongly to phonemic than to stress information Dewey 150 Swiss National Science Foundation Relative contribution of multiple segmentation cues to lexical identification and acquisition 131954 CH Project funding Autre Labex Brain and Language Research Institute ANR-11-LABX-0036 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 736 Développement du langage et cognition 595 Psycholinguistique The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139 3 e5eb8f30-f106-4c4e-bc06-55bff4c093aa Article (Published version) Restricted Michelas_et_al_16.pdf 820989 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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How deaf are French speakers to stress?	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America			2016	692	0

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