Looking for exemplar effects: testing the comprehension and memory representations of r'duced words in Dutch learners of French

In this study, we tested whether second language (hereafter L2) learners can encode in the form of exemplars phonetic variation that does not occur regularly in their native language (hereafter L1). Three groups of Dutch learners of French performed a long-term repetition priming lexical decision task in which words were repeated. The second occurrence (target) of an experimental word either matched or mismatched the pronunciation of its first occurrence (prime). When a target matched its prime, both tokens had a completely devoiced or a completely voiced high vowel in their first syllable. When a target mismatched its prime, the prime had a devoiced high vowel in its first syllable, while the target had a voiced high vowel in its first syllable, and vice versa. In condition AA and in condition BB we reused the same token (albeit different tokens per condition) in case of a repetition match. In condition AB, we used different tokens for prime and target. The consent forms templates, and the audio files and python scripts to run the lexical decision task are to be found under MATERIALS. RAW DATA contains the raw output files. DATA is the data we used for our statistical analyses. All data files are accompanied by a word document named 'variables' which explains the names of the variables and their type.