Corrélats neurocognitifs de la perception de la focalisation prosodique contrastive en français

International audienceThe present event-related functional magnetic brain imaging (fMRI) study deals with the perception of prosodic contrastive focus in French. Twenty-two right-handed French speakers participated in the experiment. The two conditions consisted in the auditory judgement of two kinds of utterances: with contrastive prosodic focus (Focus condition, Task) and without (Neutral condition, Control). The participants had to judge whether the utterances contained focus or not. Our results suggest that both hemispheres participate in the auditory perception of contrastive prosodic focus, but with a left-dominant contribution for morpho-syntactic processes and thematic role monitoring