POTA , Stéphane

We designed two experiments that tested the listeners' perceptual capacities during online segmentation of homophonic word boundaries while processing sentential information. In French, listeners often use variations in fine acoustic indices to detect word beginnings. We measured event-related potentials (ERPs) evoked by phonemically identical...

his paper evaluates the use of intonational cues during word segmentation in French. Specifically, we aim to examine how the characteristicsof the fundamental frequency (F0)that can be observed at the beginning of wordsinfluence theirprocessing. Native speakers of French were presented with phonemically identical ...

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Despite the lack of clear word boundaries in spoken language, the human ability to recognize speech seems to be effortless. Listeners divide continuous speech into linguistically and psychologically significant units to access meaning. Speech segmentation has been proven to be affected by both the listeners' sensitivity to acoustic cues and...

Native listeners process and understand homophones, such as la locution 'the phrase' vs. l'allocution 'the speech', both [lalɔkysjɔ̃], without much semantical ambiguity in connected speech. Yet, behavioral experiments show that disambiguation is partial under intra-speaker variability without semantical context. To investigate...