Disentangling the role of attention and acoustic cues in the processing of speech sounds

The availability of a linguistic contrast between speech sounds (e.g. between [d] and [t]) in a given language is often modulated by the position (e.g. within the word) in which the sounds occur. One such example is the case of lexically stressed positions, in which contrast is more likely to be available than elsewhere in the word. This internship project is part of a larger research project on lexical stress, and it investigates the relative contribution of attentional and phonetic facts in shaping this distribution of phonological contrasts. The internship builds involves the programming (Psychopy) of an already planned experiment, (online) testing of participants and data analysis (R).