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The data correspond to the following experiment that was published in Experimental Psychology: Are prosodic variants stored in the French mental lexicon? Amandine Michelas and Sophie Dufour Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS amp; Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, Franceamandine.michelas@lpl-aix.fr; sophie.dufour@lpl-aix.fr Abstract: A long-term priming experiment examined the way stress information is processed and represented in French speakers’ mind. Repeated prime and target words either matched (/bɑ̃'do/ - /bɑ̃'do/ ‘headband’) or mismatched their stress pattern (/bɑ̃do/ - /bɑ̃'do/). In comparison to a control condition (/maʁɔ̃/ - /bɑ̃'do/), the results showed that matching and mismatching primes were equally effective in facilitating the processing of the target words. Thus, despite the fact that French speakers routinely produce and hear words in their stressed and unstressed versions, this study suggests that stress in French is not integrated into lexical representations. Keywords: Spoken word recognition, lexical representations, French prosody, primary stress.