Rassili O, Michelas A, Dufour S. Does accentual variation in the pronunciation of French words influence their recognition? It depends on the ear of presentation.
JASA EXPRESS LETTERS 2023;
3:035204. [PMID:
37003717 DOI:
10.1121/10.0017516]
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Abstract
This repetition priming study examined how word accentual variation in French is represented and processed during spoken word recognition. Mismatched primes in the accentual pattern were less effective than matched primes in facilitating target word recognition when the targets were presented in the left ear but not in the right ear. This indicates that in French, the accentual pattern of words influences their recognition when processing is constrained in the right hemisphere. This study pleads in favor of two memory systems, the one retaining words in an abstract format and the other retaining words in their various forms.
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