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Amandine Michelas1, Sophie Dufour1
1Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Abstract:
A long-term priming experiment examined the way stress information is processed and represented in French speakers' mind. Repeated prime and target words either matched (/bã'do/ - /bã'do/ "headband") or mismatched their stress pattern (/bãdo/ - /bã'do/). In comparison to a control condition (/maʁ[Formula: see text]/ - /bã'do/), the results showed that matching and mismatching primes were equally effective in facilitating the processing of the target words. Thus, despite the fact that French speakers routinely produce and hear words in their stressed and unstressed versions, this study suggests that stress in French is not integrated into lexical representations.
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