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| Title: | Learning to parse liaison-initial words: An eye-tracking study |
| Author: | Annie Temblay |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/atrembla/home/ |
| Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Linguistic Field: | Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
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English
French |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the processing of resyllabified words by native English speakers at three proficiency levels in French and by native French speakers. In particular, it examines non-native listeners’ development of a parsing procedure for recognizing vowel-initial words in the context of liaison, a process that creates a misalignment of the syllable and word boundaries in French. The participants completed an eye-tracking experiment in which they identified liaison- and consonant-initial real and nonce words in auditory stimuli. The results show that the non-native listeners had little difficulty recognizing liaison-initial real words, and they recognized liaison-initial nonce words more rapidly than consonant-initial ones. By contrast, native listeners recognized consonant-initial real and nonce words more rapidly than liaison-initial ones. These results suggest that native and non-native listeners used different parsing procedures for recognizing liaison-initial words in the task, with the non-native listeners’ ability to segment liaison-initial words being phonologically abstract rather than lexical. |
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This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 14, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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