ABSTRACT

In two ABX experiments using natural and synthetic stimuli, we examined the ability of French listeners to perceive accentual variation by manipulating the ear of presentation. A native (/balɔ̃/-/baˈlɔ̃/) and a non-native (/ˈbalɔ̃/-/baˈlɔ̃/) accentual contrasts were tested. The stimuli A and B varied in accent (/ˈbalɔ̃/-/baˈlɔ̃/), in one phoneme (/baˈlo/-/baˈlɔ̃/) or in both types of information (/ˈbalo/-/baˈlɔ̃/). For the non-native contrast, persistent difficulty was found regardless of the ear of presentation. For the native contrast, better performance was observed when the stimuli were presented to the left ear, and thus when the processing was pushed into the right hemisphere. Our findings also showed that the native contrast was processed as a non-native contrast when the processing was pushed into the left hemisphere. More generally, our study indicates that accentual variation at the word level in French is processed as non-linguistic variation.

摘要

在两个使用天然和合成刺激的ABX实验中，我们研究了法国听众通过操纵演示耳朵来感知口音变化的能力。原生（/balɔ/ - / BA lɔ /）和一个非天然的（/ BAL ɔ/ - / BA lɔ/ ）重音对比度进行测试。刺激A和B的重音（/ ˈbal ɔ̃ /-/ ba ˈlɔ̃ /），一个音素（/ ba ˈlo /-/ ba ˈlɔ̃ /）或两种信息类型（/ ˈbal o /-/ ba ˈlɔ̃ /））。对于非本机对比，无论演讲的人如何，都发现了持续的困难。对于自然的对比，当将刺激施加到左耳时，从而将处理推入右半球时，观察到更好的性能。我们的发现还表明，当将处理推入左半球时，原始对比被处理为非自然对比。更广泛地说，我们的研究表明法语中单词级别的重音变化被视为非语言变化。