Vendredi 23 octobre 2015

9h30-12h LPL, salle de conférences B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

Séminaire thématique, cycle Oculométrie et prosodie

The online and offline processing of prosodic prominence

Aoju Chen*, Amandine Michelas & Sophie Dufour**,

Nuria Esteve-Gibert*** & Mariapaola D'Imperio**

* Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

** LPL, CNRS & AMU (Aix-en-Provence)

*** BLRI (Brain and Language Research Institute)

Résumé  This workshop will present online and offline data on how speakers of languages with different prosodic structures process prosodic prominence to understand spoken utterances. From the one hand, prosodic prominence can be used to mark a constituent in the sentence that has to be interpreted with respect of possible alternatives in the discourse (as in the sentence J?ai une ORANGE, pas une pomme; capital letters indicating more prosodic emphasis). Depending on the prosodic structure of the language, prosodic information is also used to parse speech into words (as in the case of French where the primary accent always affects the last syllable of the accentual group) and can also boost the activation of lexical candidates. The question is how exactly listeners process the prosodic cues that signal prominence, the cues they use, how they map them into the lexical, syntactic and meaning domain, and how learners of a language access to this information. Specifically, in the first talk Aoju Chen (Utrecht University ? MPI of Psycholinguistics) will present data on the anticipatory processing of prosodic prominence in referent resolution, testing advanced Dutch learners of English using both offline tasks and eye-tracking measures (visual-world paradigm). In the second talk Amandine Michelas and Sophie Dufour (LPL ? AMU) will present results on the perceptive processing of the primary accent, testing adult French speakers and using an ABX paradigm. In the third task Nuria Esteve-Gibert & Mariapaola D?Imperio will try to show how French adult speakers map a meaning to a specific intonation contour that requires complex perspective-taking abilities to be comprehended, using eye-tracking data and measuring individual?s empathic skills.

Programme

- 9h30h-10h45: Aoju Chen (Utrecht University & MPI for Psycholinguistics) Processing prosodic information in a second language

- 10h45-11h00: Pause

- 11h00-11h30: Amandine Michelas & Sophie Dufour (LPL, Aix-en-Provence) On the French listeners? ability to use stress during spoken word recognition

- 11h30-12h00: Nuria Esteve-Gibert & Mariapaola D'Imperio (BLRI & LPL, Aix-en-Provence) Eye-tracking the online processing of the intonation-meaning interface: the role of pitch accents and individual pragmatic abilities

Programme détaillé

Plus d?infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1642