?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Prosodic+structure+and+phonetic+processing%3A+A+cross-linguistic+study&rft.creator=Pallier%2C+Christophe&rft.creator=Cutler%2C+Anne&rft.creator=Sebastian-Gall%C3%A9s%2C+Nuria&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=Dutch+and+Spanish+differ+in+how+predictable+the+stress+pattern+is+as+a+function+of+the+segmental+content%3A+it+is+correlated+with+syllable+weight+in+Dutch+but+not+in+Spanish.+In+the+present+study%2C+two+experiments+were+run+to+compare+the+abilities+of+Dutch+and+Spanish+speakers+to+separately+process+segmental+and+stress+information.+It+was+predicted+that+the+Spanish+speakers+would+have+more+difficulty+focusing+on+the+segments+and+ignoring+the+stress+pattern+than+the+Dutch+speakers.+The+task+was+a+speeded+classification+task+on+CVCV+syllables%2C+with+blocks+of+trials+in+which+the+stress+pattern+could+vary+versus+blocks+in+which+it+was+fixed.+First%2C+we+found+interference+due+to+stress+variability+in+both+languages%2C+suggesting+that+the+processing+of+segmental+information+cannot+be+performed+independently+of+stress.+Second%2C+the+effect+was+larger+for+Spanish+than+for+Dutch%2C+suggesting+that+that+the+degree+of+interference+from+stress+variation+may+be+partially+mitigated+by+the+predictability+of+stress+placement+in+the+language.+%0A&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F931%2F3%2Fa0288.pdf&rft.identifier=++Pallier%2C+Christophe+and+Cutler%2C+Anne+and+Sebastian-Gall%C3%A9s%2C+Nuria++(1997)+Prosodic+structure+and+phonetic+processing%3A+A+cross-linguistic+study.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F931%2F