Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations.

This article investigates the semantic polyfunctionality of affixes, i.e. their ability to serve a variety of distinct semantic functions.

Neural correlates of lexical stress processing in a foreign free-stress language.

Introduction: The paper examines the discrimination of lexical stress contrasts in a foreign language from a neural perspective. The aim of the study was to identify the areas associated with word stress processing (in comparison with vowel processing), when listeners of a fixed-stress language have to process stress in a foreign free-stress language.

Methods: We asked French-speaking participants to process stress and vowel contrasts in Spanish, a foreign language that the participants did not know.