01470nas a2200133   4500008004100000245008500041210006900126300001200195490000700207520102200214100002101236700002301257856005601280       1989                        eng d00aStructures perceptivo-cognitives de quelques patrons intonatifs en fran{\c c}ais0 aStructures perceptivocognitives de quelques patrons intonatifs e  a38–560 v143 aA psycholinguistic experiment in the paradigm of multidimensional scaling aimed at the establishment of perceptual-cognitive structures of seven six-syllable intonation patterns in French was made. Each test sentence was evaluated in terms of 42 acoustic parameters. The readings were subjected to a multivariate statistical analysis whereby three independent acoustic axes were derived. The data from the perceptual experiment for scaling the same sentences on the basis of similarity by French native speakers were firstly processed according to hierarchicalscheme clustering algorithms and, secondly, according to the procedures of multidimensional scaling. A three-dimensional structure of perceptual-cognitive space of French native speakers for the seven intonation patterns was established. A high correlation between the acoustic and the perceptual-cognitive axes was found which is interpreted as a corroboration of some hypotheses formulated in the framework of a three-component model of speech perception.1 aNikov, Mi\v, sel1 aGerganov, En\v, co  uhttp://www.scripta-bulgarica.eu/bg/biblio/nikov1989