Le traitement cognitif de la liaison dans la reconnaissance de la parole enchaînée

How do French listeners recognise words in liaison environments? This article presents a literature review on liaison processing by French adults. First, we will see that despite phonological variations and resyllabification associated to the liaison phenomenon, lexical access is not impaired for bound words. We will then examine various factors that are involved in lexical access for words that undergo liaison. We will see that the resolution of liaison depends partly on acoustic cues that distinguish liaison consonants from non-liaison consonants, and partly on the availability of lexical support for a liaison interpretation.ENG : French liaison!spoken word recognition!resyllabification!Spinelli Elsa, Meunier Fanny. Le traitement cognitif de la liaison dans la reconnaissance de la parole enchaînée. In: Langages, 39ᵉ année, n°158, 2005. La liaison : de la phonologie à la cognition. pp. 79-88