On the resolution of phonological constraints in spoken production: Acoustic and response time evidence

Buerki Foschini, Audrey Damaris; Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans; Alario, F.-Xavier

doi:10.1121/1.4934179

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On the resolution of phonological constraints in spoken production: Acoustic and response time evidence

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Buerki Foschini, Audrey Damaris; Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans; Alario, F.-Xavier

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 138, no. 4, p. 429-434

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2015

Abstract

This study examines the production of words the pronuncia- tion of which depends on the phonological context. Participants pro- duced adjective-noun phrases starting with the French determiner un. The pronunciation of this determiner requires a liaison consonant before vowels. Naming latencies and determiner acoustic durations were shorter when the adjective and the noun both started with vowels or both with consonants, than when they had different onsets. These results suggest that the liaison process is not governed by the application of a local contextual phonological rule; they rather favor the hypothesis that pronunciation variants with and without the liaison consonant are stored in memory.

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Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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Funding

European Commission - Lexical information processes and their spatio-temporal dynamics [263575]
Swiss National Science Foundation - From word learning to word recognition: the relative contribution of language-specific and universal segmentation cues. [152793]

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BUERKI FOSCHINI, Audrey Damaris, FRAUENFELDER, Ulrich Hans, ALARIO, F.-Xavier. On the resolution of phonological constraints in spoken production: Acoustic and response time evidence. In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015, vol. 138, n° 4, p. 429–434. doi: 10.1121/1.4934179

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DOI : 10.1121/1.4934179

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0001-4966

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