Nous présentons ici une étude visant à évaluer la qualité de réalisation des productions trois voyelles nasales du français contemporain (/ɛ̃/, /ɔ̃/, /ɑ̃/) par apprenants japonophones et hispanophones avancés (niveau compétence B2-C1 CECR). A notre connaissance, très peu d'études se sont penchées sur le traitement en L2 (avec locuteurs japonais, voir Takeuchi & Arai, 2009 ; avec américains, Montagu, 2002). Ce manque apparent d'intérêt peut partie être expliqué complexité relations entre les...

The perception of stress is highly influenced by listeners' native language. In this research, the authors examined effect intonation and talker variability (here: phonetic variability) in discrimination Spanish lexical contrasts (N = 17), German 21), French 27) listeners. Participants listened to 216 trials containing three disyllabic words, where one word carried a different others. task was identify deviant each trial (Odd-One-Out task). words were produced either same or two talkers,...

RÉSUMÉ Cette recherche vise à examiner empiriquement l'idée commune que les Suisses romands parlent lentement. Nous avons comparé, en parole lue, diverses variables temporelles produites par des locuteurs provenant d'une variété régionale française (Brunoy Ile-de-France) et de deux variétés régionales suisses romandes (Neuchâtel Nyon), ce, tenant compte l’âge du sexe locuteurs. Les résultats montrent, part, que, parmi temporelles, seule la vitesse d'articulation permet distinguer trois...

(1) Background: Bilingualism has been reported to shape the brain by inducing cortical changes in and subcortical language executive networks. Similar yet different bilingualism, diglossia is common Switzerland, where German-speaking population switches between an everyday spoken Swiss German (CH-GER) dialect standard (stGER) used for reading writing. However, no data are available diglossia, defined as use of varieties or dialects same language, regarding structure. The aim our study...

Abstract Individual differences in working memory and musical aptitude, as well task complexity are crucial predicting the performance of word stress perception a second language (L2). The present study investigated interactive effects these factors with listeners’ first language. French German listeners, both without knowledge Spanish, performed stress-related tasks tests their L1. Besides confirming impact L1, our findings better define influence aptitude on L2 by specifically tapping into...

Abstract The present research examines the impact of listeners’ own rate speech production on their perception rate. We recorded 28 native French speakers reading a passage at normal, fast and slow rates. same then assessed these samples by all rates (normal, slow), using magnitude estimation task. show that there is an inverse relationship between judgment rate, so listeners with slower tend to overestimate sample relative faster speakers. This effect was in results normal rates, but not...

The aim of this paper is to provide an acoustical account penultimate accentuation in some varieties French.We compare stretches spontaneous speech produced by 8 Swiss speakers (4 Neuchâtel and 4 Wallis speakers, hereafter "regional varieties") with the productions a group Parisian (hereafter "standard variety").The results our study show that less frequent French than varieties.More interestingly, reveals phenomenon has different acoustic correlates not only between standard variety...

Lexical stress is an essential element of prosody. Mastering this prosodic feature challenging, especially in a free-stress foreign language for individuals native to fixed-stress language, phenomenon referred as deafness. By using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we elucidated the neuronal underpinnings processing and determined underlying mechanism Here, contrasted behavioral hemodynamic responses revealed by speakers (German; N = 38) (French; 47) while discriminating pairs words...

The acoustic and perceptual correlates of stress in Spanish have been usually studied at the word level, but few investigations considered them a wider context. aim present work is to assess role fundamental frequency, duration amplitude perception lexical when part sentence. An experiment has carried out which participants (39 listeners, 20 from Costa Rica 19 Spain) had identify position words presented isolation same embedded sentences. stimuli was not correctly identified acoustically...

Abstract Two experiments were conducted to determine whether listeners’ ability use allophonic variation identify word boundaries is influenced by speaking rate. Listeners in both presented two-word sequences (such as great eyes ) spoken naturally fast and slow talkers; one experiment the quiet other they noise. The task was intended sequence from among four choices with alternative segmentations (e.g. , gray ties ). In performance worse for produced talkers than those talkers. This finding...

The aim of this research is to examine whether Spanish speakers transfer some accentual acoustic properties from French L2.Native learners and native were instructed read sentences containing a trisyllabic target pseudoword.In sentences, the pseudoword was in stressed position, while others it an unstressed position.Acoustic analysis (duration, F0 amplitude) performed on three vowels pseudoword, as well first vowel following pseudoword.Results showed that have acquired knowledge that,...

The present research aims at determining to what extent an orthographic error related the accent mark affects visual recognition of Spanish words. For this, we conducted two experiments lexical decision (with no word production), in which Spanish-speaking participants were instructed ignore presence or absence mark. Stimuli composed words originally without (OrNA for ‘originally accent’; Experiment 1) and with (OrWA Experiments 1 2). OrNA presented three conditions: correctly spelled (e.g.,...