Sonority projection effect in French: A signal detection theory approach
| Autor: | Cédric Patin, Anahita Basirat, Jeremie Jozefowiez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Computational model 05 social sciences Scale (music) Lexicon 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Sonority hierarchy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Detection theory Sonority Sequencing Principle Projection (set theory) Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique. 66:255-266 |
| ISSN: | 1710-1115 0008-4131 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/cnj.2021.5 |
| Popis: | Focusing on the Sonority Sequencing Principle, we investigated to what extent adult native speakers of French are sensitive to sonority-related constraints compared to lexical attestedness. In a non-word acceptability task, participants were asked to rate the acceptability of three types of non-words using a 6-point scale: non-words with attested sonority rising onset, non-words with unattested sonority rising onset and non-words with unattested sonority falling onset. Data analysis was done using the signal detection theory approach to measure sensitivity of participants to lexical attestedness and to phonological well-formedness (i.e. respecting or violating the Sonority Sequencing Principle). The results showed that speakers distinguished well-formed and ill-formed forms even when lexical attestedness was controlled for. This is consistent with previous findings on sonority projection effects. Participants were more sensitive to lexical attestedness than phonological well-formedness. Future research using computational models should investigate the mechanisms which could account for these findings, namely whether a similar result would be obtained without including any assumption about the Sonority Sequencing Principle in these models. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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