Langages - Année 2005 - Volume 39 - Numéro 158 - Pages 79-88How 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 liaison depends partly on acoustic cues that distinguish liaison consonants from non-liaison consonants, and partly on the availability of lexical support for a liaison interpretation. 10 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.