?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Phonemes+and+Syllables+in+Speech+Perception%3A+size+of+the+attentional+focus+in+French.&rft.creator=Pallier%2C+Christophe&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Speech&rft.subject=Phonology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=A+study+by+Pitt+and+Samuel+(1990)+found+that+English+speakers+could+narrowly+focus+attention+onto+a+precise+phonemic+position+inside+spoken+words+%5B1%5D.+This+led+the+authors+to+argue+that+the+phoneme%2C+rather+than+the+syllable%2C+is+the+primary+unit+of+speech+perception.+Other+evidence%2C+obtained+with+a+syllable+detection+paradigm%2C+has+been+put+forward+to+propose+that+the+syllable+is+the+unit+of+perception%3B+yet%2C+these+experiments+were+ran+with+French+speakers+%5B2%5D.+In+the+present+study%2C+we+adapted+Pitt+%26+Samuel's+phoneme+detection+experiment+to+French+and+found+that+French+subjects+behave+exactly+like+English+subjects%3A+they+too+can+focus+attention+on+a+precise+phoneme.+To+explain+both+this+result+and+the+established+sensitivity+to+the+syllabic+structure%2C+we+propose+that+the+perceptual+system+automatically+parses+the+speech+signal+into+a+syllabically-structured+phonological+representation.&rft.publisher=University+of+Patras%2C+Rion%2C+Greece&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F751%2F3%2Fa0602.pdf&rft.identifier=++Pallier%2C+Christophe++(1997)+Phonemes+and+Syllables+in+Speech+Perception%3A+size+of+the+attentional+focus+in+French.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F751%2F