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Abstract
Accentuation is encoded by both durational and pitch cues in French. While previous research agrees that the sole presence of pitch cues is sufficient to encode accentuation in French, the role of durational cues is less clear. In four cue-weighting accent perception experiments, we examined the role of pitch and durational cues in French listeners' perception of accentuation. French listeners were tested on acoustic continua ranging from an unaccented first syllable [depla'se] "moved" to an accented first syllable ['de] [pla'se] "a dice placed." The continua were obtained by manipulating pitch and durational cues either separately or conjointly. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants identified each step of the continuum by choosing between two possible segmentations while in Experiments 3 and 4, participants performed an AX discrimination task on two adjacent steps. Results indicate that participants' performance was better when pitch cues were varied compared to when durational cues were varied in both the identification and discrimination tasks. In addition, while participants always benefited from the additional presence of pitch cues, participants did not consistently benefit from the additional presence of durational cues. Together, these results suggest that pitch cues are a better marker of French accentuation than durational cues.
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Since 1929 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary study of sound. Subject coverage includes: linear and nonlinear acoustics; aeroacoustics, underwater sound and acoustical oceanography; ultrasonics and quantum acoustics; architectural and structural acoustics and vibration; speech, music and noise; psychology and physiology of hearing; engineering acoustics, transduction; bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics.