The aim of this paper is to test the role of prosody in the perception of regional- and foreignaccented speech in French. 120 native and non-native participants were presented with filtered (devoid of segmental cues) and natural speech material. Three varieties of French known to present different prosodic patterns were taken into account: a standard variety (French spoken in Paris), a regional variety (French spoken in Neuchâtel, a French-speaking Swiss city) and a L2 variety (French spoken in Neuchâtel by Swiss-German speakers who immigrated there in their youth). The results reveal that all the varieties are quite well identified in the non-filtered condition, but they are even better identified in the filtered condition, independently of the participant’s origin. Complementary analyses reveal that the role of prosodic cues such as articulation rate and prominence rate in the filtered condition do not have the same importance regarding the origin of the listeners.