14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14) San Francisco, CA, USA August 1-7, 1999

An Approach to the Influence of Context in the Recognition of Spoken French Word

S. Monpiou (1), M. N. Metz-Lutz (2), F. Wioland (1)

(1) Institut de Phonétique de Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France
(2) INSERM U398, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Clinique Neurologique, Strasbourg, France

This study examines the extent to which word recognition is influenced by the information of grammatical gender given by the French singular definite article (le/la). More specifically, the focus is on auditory word recognition when words are in the final noun phrase in a Subject Verb Object (SVO) sentence. We compared the gender effect with that of the semantic information of the verb in order to estimate its importance.

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Bibliographic reference.  Monpiou, S. / Metz-Lutz, M. N. / Wioland, F. (1999): "An approach to the influence of context in the recognition of spoken French word", In ICPhS-14, 889-891.