Efstathia Soroli|Gayaneh Szenkovits|Franck Ramus
Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit III: foreign speech perception and production
Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique|School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|École Normale Supérieure - PSL|French National Centre for Scientific Research|Structures Formelles du Langage|Paris 8 University|Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique|School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|École Normale Supérieure - PSL|French National Centre for Scientific Research|Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique|School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|École Normale Supérieure - PSL|French National Centre for Scientific Research
study investigates french dyslexic control adult participants ability perceive produce two different nonnative contrasts one segmental one prosodic across several conditions varying shortterm memory load purpose selected korean plosive voicing whose categories conflict french ones segmental contrast lexical stress prosodic contrast french use contrastive lexical stress also used french native segmental contrast control tasks either auditory discrimination repetition cvcv nonsense words shortterm memory load varied presenting stimuli either isolation sequences two sequences three results show overall differences dyslexic control participants particular dyslexic participants performed similarly controls tasks involving korean plosives whether discrimination production regardless shortterm memory load however group differences emerged respect lexical stress discrimination task greater shortterm memory load various analyses suggest dyslexic participants difficulties due metaphonological nature task shortterm memory load