SPINELLI , Elsa

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...

Natural speech is highly complex and variable. Particularly, spoken language, in contrast to written language, has no clear word boundaries. Adult listeners can exploit different types of information to segment the continuous stream such as acoustic and semantic information. However, the weight of these cues, when co-occurring, remains to be...

Speech perception involves segmenting a continuous stream of speech into its word components. This can be challenging in the case of homophonous utterances only differing in non-contrastive subphonemic features. Yet, the speech perception system seems able to discriminate subphonemic deviation in homophonous utterances, since it has been shown...

The current dataset provides all the stimuli (folder ../01-Stimuli/), raw data (folder ../02-Raw-data/) and post-processed data (../03-Post-proc-data/) used in a prosody reverse correlation study with the title "prosodic cues to word boundaries in a segmentation task using reverse correlation" by the same authors. The listening experiment was...

When listening to speech sounds, listeners are able to exploit acoustic features that mark the boundaries between successive words, the so-called segmentation cues. These cues are typically investigated by directly manipulating features that are hypothetically related to segmentation. The current study uses a different approach based on reverse...

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...

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...

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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 ...

In the present preregistered study, we evaluated the possibility of a shared cognitive mechanism during verbal and non-verbal tasks and therefore the implication of domain-general cognitive control during language comprehension. We hypothesized that a behavioral cost will be observed during a dual-task including both verbal and non-verbal...