Elsa Spinelli

Biographic Data

ID3822084
NAMEElsa Spinelli
GIVEN NAMESElsa
FAMILY NAMESpinelli
SIGNATURESPINELLI E
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Grenoble Alpes
ORCID0000-0001-7024-9387
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Grammatical Gender Biases Interpretation of Masculine, but Not Feminine, Hybrid Nouns

    Open AccessLéo Varnet, Thomas Baga et al.ARTICLEJournal of French Language Studies2026

    A substantial body of research has demonstrated that, in French as in other gender-marked languages, masculine generic terms tend to induce a male bias in the readers’ mental representations of the person referred to. The current study investigates whether this bias extends to hybrid nouns, a particular class of nouns with a fixed grammatical gender that can refer to either a man or a woman (e.g. “une personne”, ‘a FEM person FEM ’, or “un indivi…

  • Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning

    Open AccessPauline Welby, Elsa Spinelli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2022

    L1 French participants learned novel L2 English words over two days of learning sessions, with half of the words presented with their orthographic forms (Audio-Ortho) and half without (Audio only). One group heard the words pronounced by a single talker, while another group heard them pronounced by multiple talkers. On the third day, they completed a variety of tasks to evaluate their learning. Our results show a robust influence of orthography, …

  • Syntactic Cues Take Precedence Over Distributional Cues in Native and Non-Native Speech Segmentation

    Open AccessAngelo Tremblay, Annie Tremblay et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2018References: 17

    This study investigates whether syntactic cues take precedence over distributional cues in native and non-native speech segmentation by examining native and non-native speech segmentation in potential French-liaison contexts. Native French listeners and English-speaking second-language learners of French completed a visual-world eye-tracking experiment. Half the stimuli contained the pivotal consonant /t/, a frequent word onset but infrequent lia…

  • English Listeners’ Use of Distributional and Acoustic-Phonetic Cues to Liaison in French

    Open AccessAngelo Tremblay, Annie Tremblay et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2014Cited by: 1References: 50

    This study investigates English listeners’ use of distributional and acoustic-phonetic cues to liaison in French. Liaison creates a misalignment of the syllable and word boundaries, but is signaled by distributional cues (/z/ is a frequent liaison but not a frequent word onset; /t/ is a frequent word onset but a less frequent liaison) and acoustic-phonetic cues (liaison consonants are 15 per cent shorter than word-initial consonants). English-spe…

  • Liaison acquisition

    Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Céline Dugua et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2013

  • Le traitement cognitif de la liaison dans la reconnaissance de la parole enchaînée

    Elsa Spinelli, Fanny Meunier et al.ARTICLELangages2005Cited by: 2References: 18

    How do French listeners recognise words in liaison environments? This article presents a literature review on liaison processing by French adults. First, we will see that despite phonological variations and resyllabification associated to the liaison phenomenon, lexical access is not impaired for bound words. We will then examine various factors that are involved in lexical access for words that undergo liaison. We will see that the resolution of…