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Rôle de la syllabe dans la perception de la parole : études attentionnelles

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Auteur / Autrice : Christophe Pallier
Direction : Jacques Mehler
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Psychologie
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris, EHESS

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A series of psycholinguistic experiments evaluating the hypothesis that the sillable is the unit of speech processing is presented. Subjects had to detect or classify linguistic stimuli on line. We have observed (a) that extra-syllabic varia bility; (b) that subjects could be induced to detect target phonemes faster when these were located at a precise syllabi c position, but not when the position was defined sequentially; (c) that sub-syllabic information could prime a motor re sponse. These results lead us to reject the classical syllabic model where the syllable is both the unit of decoding and the unit of representation of speech. We propose a new model in which subjects' reponses orginate from a phonological representation which possesses a syllabic structure.