Perception des modalités de l’allemand par des locuteurs natifs francophones
Résumé
This paper deals with the perception of German enunciative modalities, like assertion, interrogation
and exclamation, by non-native speakers with French as their native language. It aims to
study the relationship between the perception of different modalities and the morphosyntactic and
intonative structures of the target and source languages. The first part of the paper describes corpus
acquisition and acoustic stimuli recording conditions, together with the perception of the test
protocol. The second part presents the results of this test, including the time reaction to the audio
stimuli, which carry the various enunciative modalities, and the validity of the responses. The third
and last part analyses the intonative and morphosyntactic structures of the target language and interprets
the results of the perception test. This study confirms the existence of intonative and morphosyntactic
markers, which influence reaction time. Early onset of these segmental and prosodic
markers enhances the precocious anticipation of correct decisions, and thus shorter reaction times.
The results of this research will be compared with our previous study on “perception of French
enunciative modalities by German native speakers”.