Si parler anglais avec une syntaxe imprécise et un lexique lacunaire constituent un frein évident à des opportunités de carrière internationale, l’impact de la prononciation ne doit cependant pas être sous-estimé. De nombreuses études scientifiques démontrent en effet qu’un accent étranger peut se révéler particulièrement stigmatisant dans le milieu professionnel. Pour prendre deux exemples parmi tant d’autres, les médecins s’exprimant avec un accent étranger sont perçus comme moins compétents (Baquiran & Nicoladis, 2019), et les témoignages dans des procès sont moins crédibles quand les témoins ont un accent étranger (Frumkin, 2007).
Our perception of someone's accent influences our expectations about what they might say or do. In this experiment, EEG data were recorded while participants listened to cliché sentences matching or not the stereotypes associated with the speaker's …
Voice quality is known to be an important factor for the characterization of a speaker’s voice, both in terms of physiological features (mainly laryngeal and suprala-ryngeal) and of the speaker’s habits (sociolinguistic factors). This paper is …
Voice quality is known to be an important factor for the characterization of a speaker’s voice, both in terms of physiological features (mainly laryngeal and suprala-ryngeal) and of the speaker’s habits (sociolinguistic factors). This paper is …
Since scientists' individual epistemological preferences infallibly shape the output of their research, this thesis starts with a presentation of the author's position with respect to a number of methodological issues pertaining to the field of …
The secondary labial articulation which accompanies the post-alveolar approximant /r/ in English has attracted far less attention from linguists than the primary lingual one. However, the lips may be particularly important in the variety of English …