Perception des modalités de l’allemand par des locuteurs natifs francophones

International audience; This paper deals with the perception of German enunciative modalities, like assertion, interrogationand exclamation, by non-native speakers with French as their native language. It aims tostudy the relationship between the perception of different modalities and the morphosyntactic andintonative structures of the target and source languages. The first part of the paper describes corpusacquisition and acoustic stimuli recording conditions, together with the perception of the testprotocol. The second part presents the results of this test, including the time reaction to the audiostimuli, which carry the various enunciative modalities, and the validity of the responses. The thirdand last part analyses the intonative and morphosyntactic structures of the target language and interpretsthe results of the perception test. This study confirms the existence of intonative and morphosyntacticmarkers, which influence reaction time. Early onset of these segmental and prosodicmarkers enhances the precocious anticipation of correct decisions, and thus shorter reaction times.The results of this research will be compared with our previous study on “perception of Frenchenunciative modalities by German native speakers”.