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The perception of phonemic contrasts in a non-native dialect

Author(s) -

Sophie Dufour,

Noël Nguyen,

Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.2710742

Subject(s) - homophone , stress (linguistics) , contrast (vision) , linguistics , perception , psychology , repetition priming , variation (astronomy) , phonology , first language , repetition (rhetorical device) , tone (literature) , computer science , physics , cognition , philosophy , artificial intelligence , lexical decision task , neuroscience , astrophysics

This study examined the impact on speech processing of regional phonetic/phonological variation in the listener's native language. The perception of the /e/-/epsilon/ and /o/-/upside down c/ contrasts, produced by standard but not southern French native speakers, was investigated in these two populations. A repetition priming experiment showed that the latter but not the former perceived words such as /epe/ and /epepsilon/ as homophones. In contrast, both groups perceived the two words of /o/-/upside down c/ minimal pairs (/pom/-/p(uspide down c)m/) as being distinct. Thus, standard-French words can be perceived differently depending on the listener's regional accent.

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