@article{BuerkiFoschiniViebahnRacineetal.2018,
  author    = {B{\"u}rki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris and Viebahn, Malte Clemens and Racine, Isabelle and Mabut, Cassandre and Spinelli, Elsa},
  title     = {Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition},
  series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {2327-3798},
  doi       = {10.1080/23273798.2017.1388412},
  pages     = {494 -- 511},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In connected speech, many words are produced with a pronunciation that differs from the canonical form. How the speech recognition system deals with this variation is a fundamental issue in the language processing literature. The present study examines the roles of variant type, variant frequency, and context in the processing of French words with a canonical (schwa variant, e.g. semaine "week") and a non-canonical pronunciation (no-schwa variant, s'maine). It asks whether the processing of canonical pronunciations is faster than the processing of non-canonical ones. Results of three lexical decision experiments reveal that more frequent variants are recognised more quickly, and that there is no advantage for canonical forms once variant frequency is accounted for. Two of these experiments further failed to find evidence that the context in which the words are presented modulate the effect of variant type. These findings are discussed in the light of spoken word recognition models.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BuerkiFoschiniWelbyClementetal.2019,
  author    = {B{\"u}rki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris and Welby, Pauline and Clement, Melanie and Spinelli, Elsa},
  title     = {Orthography and second language word learning},
  series = {The journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  volume    = {145},
  journal   = {The journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
  address   = {Melville},
  issn      = {0001-4966},
  doi       = {10.1121/1.5094923},
  pages     = {EL265 -- EL271},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {French participants learned English pseudowords either with the orthographic form displayed under the corresponding picture (Audio-Ortho) or without (Audio). In a naming task, pseudowords learned in the Audio-Ortho condition were produced faster and with fewer errors, providing a first piece of evidence that orthographic information facilitates the learning and on-line retrieval of productive vocabulary in a second language. Formant analyses, however, showed that productions from the Audio-Ortho condition were more French-like (i.e., less target-like), a result confirmed by a vowel categorization task performed by native speakers of English. It is argued that novel word learning and pronunciation accuracy should be considered together. (C) 2019 Acoustical Society of America},
  language  = {en}
}