Dans cette étude, nous examinons les facteurs qui influencent la production des mots comportant un E caduc facultatif en syllabe initiale. Nous avons demandé à des locuteurs francophones de raconter quatre histoires comportant des mots où le E caduc est facultatif, et nous avons ensuite calculé, pour chaque mot, un taux de production avec effacement. Afin de prédire les taux obtenus, sept facteurs ont été choisis et, pour chacun d'eux, un coefficient de corrélation a été calculé. Une combinaison des trois facteurs les plus importants a ensuite été utilisée pour déterminer le pourcentage de variation du E caduc facultatif qui peut être expliqué. Il en ressort que la production du E caduc facultatif est en partie prévisible.
We studied the processing of two word strings in French made up of a determiner and a noun which contains a schwa (mute e). Depending on the noun, schwa deletion is present ("la tir'lire"), optional ("le ch(e)min") or absent ("la cornemuse"). In a production study, we show that schwa deletion, and the category of the noun, have a large impact on the duration of the strings. We take this into account in two perception studies, which use word repetition and lexical decision, and which show that words in which the schwa has been deleted usually take longer to recognize than words that retain the schwa, but that this depends also on the category of the word. We explain these results by examining the influence of orthography. Based on the model proposed by Grainger and Ferrand (1996), which integrates the written dimension, we suggest that two sources of information, phonological and orthographic, interact during spoken word recognition.
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