In a discrimination experiment on several Tashlhiyt Berber singleton-geminate contrasts, we find that French listeners encounter substantial difficulty compared to native speakers. Native listeners of Tashlhiyt perform near ceiling level on all contrasts. French listeners perform better on final contrasts such as fit-fitt than initial contrasts such as bi-bbi or sir-ssir. That is, French listen...

This study explored the effect of saliency and L1-L2 similarity on the processing of second language morphosyntax. ERP responses to violations of past tense morphology were obtained from adult intermediate French learners of English. Results show that participants processed L2-specific violations as salient events and not as morphosyntactic incongruities.

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Are acoustic differences in autonomous fillers salient for the human perception ? Acoustic measurements have been carried out on autonomous fillers from eight languages (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, European Portuguese, American English and Latin American Spanish). They exhibit timbre differences of the support vowel of autonomous fillers across languages. In order to eval...

We compare formant frequency measurements between two authoritative tools (Praat and Snack), two large corpora (of face-to-face and telephone speech) and two French varieties (northern and southern). There are both an evaluation of formant tracking (as well as related filtering techniques) and an application to find out salient pronunciation traits. Despite differences between Praat and Snack w...

Object clitic constructions (1a) are notoriously difficult to master for learners of French, especially second language (L2) learners (e.g., Adiv 1984, Herschensohn 2004). This raises the question of what type of forms learners use in contexts typically requiring object clitics. Such contexts are ones in which the referent of the object is salient in the discourse and thus is felicitously encod...

In this article the author describes the salient features of Carakatattvapradipika, a commentary on the Caraka Samhita by Sivadasa sena and highlights his theory and practice of medicine.