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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 1997

Phonemes and syllables in speech perception: size of attentional focus in French

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A study by Pitt and Samuel (1990) found that English speakers could narrowly focus attention onto a precise phonemic position inside spoken words [1]. This led the authors to argue that the phoneme, rather than the syllable, is the primary unit of speech perception. Other evidence, obtained with a syllable detection paradigm, has been put forward to propose that the syllable is the unit of perception; yet, these experiments were ran with French speakers [2]. In the present study, we adapted Pitt & Samuel's phoneme detection experiment to French and found that French subjects behave exactly like English subjects: they too can focus attention on a precise phoneme. To explain both this result and the established sensitivity to the syllabic structure, we propose that the perceptual system automatically parses the speech signal into a syllabically-structured phonological representation.
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Christophe C Pallier. Phonemes and syllables in speech perception: size of attentional focus in French. Eurospeech'97, May 1997, Rhodes, Greece. ⟨hal-02341249⟩
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