title: On the resolution of phonological constraints in spoken production: Acoustic and response time evidence.
abstract: This study examines the production of words the pronunciation of which depends on the phonological context. Participants produced adjective-noun phrases starting with the French determiner un. The pronunciation of this determiner requires a liaison consonant before vowels. Naming latencies and determiner acoustic durations were shorter when the adjective and the noun both started with vowels or both with consonants, than when they had different onsets. These results suggest that the liaison process is not governed by the application of a local contextual phonological rule; they rather favor the hypothesis that pronunciation variants with and without the liaison consonant are stored in memory.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève, Bd du Pont d'Arve 42, 1205 Genève, Switzerland audrey.buerki@unige.ch, ulrich.frauenfelder@unige.ch.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bürki
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève, Bd du Pont d'Arve 42, 1205 Genève, Switzerland audrey.buerki@unige.ch, ulrich.frauenfelder@unige.ch.
authors.forename: Ulrich H
authors.initials: UH
authors.lastname: Frauenfelder
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille, France francois-xavier.alario@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: F-Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Alario
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010699:Phonation / Q000502:physiology; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D051381:Rats; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult