First of all, I would like to thank Maarten Lemmens for supervising this work and enabling
me to explore a field that I truly like. I am very thankful to his help in every way. His
constant good mood and kindness made this research very pleasant.
I am also very grateful to the French speakers who accepted to participate in my experiment:
Nicolas, Julie, Ophélie, Amandine, Maggy, Mélanie, Lucas, Corentin, Maxime, and Sabrina.
Without them, my project could not have been completed.
I wish to thank Jenny Salata, Anne Molloy, Sarah Christine Lloyd, and Kathleen O’Connor,
thanks to whom I was able to recruit participants.
Many thanks to the three listener-judges: Tracey Evison, Sarah Christine Lloyd, and Rodica
Calciu-Hanga, who kindly accepted the experiment despite the large amount of work and
time that it implied.
Finally, I want to thank my family, and especially Nicolas, for having supported me and
helped me as much as they could.