The role of acoustic correlates of stress in the perception of Spanish accentual contrasts by French speakers. Schwab, S. & Llisterri, J. In Ma, Q., Ding, H., & Hirst, D., editors, Speech Prosody 2012. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, volume 1, pages 350-353, Shanghai, 2012. Tongji University Press.
The role of acoustic correlates of stress in the perception of Spanish accentual contrasts by French speakers [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The aim of this research is to examine the role of the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in the integration of accentual information in French speakers. A shape/pseudoword matching task is used, as it implies not only a low-level acoustic processing, but also a lexical processing. Results show, on the one hand, an influence of the accentual pattern in the perception of stress; on the other, they suggest that French speakers' accentual representations seem to be more rigid than the native Spanish ones.

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