Jugements sur le nombre de syllabes et coordination temporelle des gestes articulatoires
Résumé
The paper investigates the relationship between the acoustic duration of rimes and speakers’ phonological knowledge of syllable count judgments. It is a replication and an extension of an earlier study explaining this relationship in the case of American English sesquisyllables. The extension is based on results pertaining to the temporal coordination of articulatory gestures in liquid coda consonants. The case of sesquisyllables allows us to test the hypothesis that speakers share a common representation for speech motor control and phonological knowledge. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis and show that this representation varies between speakers.