Ok, makes sense to me but that doesn't really mean that the stall strip affects the stall charateristics of the aircraft (when and how it stalls) but purely how and when the buffet is felt.
Spot on 733driver.
The whole point about the nature and position of stall strips is that they give warning without affecting stall handling. Indeed with some aircraft types the position of the strip to achieve this was only finalised during production flight test.