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French Phrasal Phonology in a Derivational Model of PF *
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In: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~mpak/nels-pf-final.pdf
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Abstract:
This paper investigates the relationship between two phonological rules—liaison and phrasal accent—that apply across words in French. Although both rules have been associated with a phrase-level constituent of the prosodic hierarchy (§1), we show that domains for liaison are sometimes larger and sometimes smaller than domains for phrasal accent, in violation of the core well-formedness principles of prosodic hierarchy theory (§2). We suggest that this apparent conflict comes about because liaison and phrasal accent are fundamentally different kinds of rules, applying at different stages in an articulated model of PF (§3). An advantage of this alternative treatment is that it provides an explanation for why some phonological rules are rate-sensitive while others are not. 1. Background: Liaison, Phrasal Accent, and Prosodic Hierarchy Theory We begin with a brief discussion of the two rules under investigation. In liaison, a wordfinal latent consonant is phonetically realized before a vowel-initial word ((1)a), but only if the two words are in a sufficiently close syntactic relationship ((1)b; see §2): (1) a. jolis enfants ‘pretty children ’ [��liz],?*[��li] b. ils sont jolis en été ‘they’re pretty in the summer ’ [��li], *[��liz] Phrasal accent is the term we use for the regular assignment of prominence within a phrasal domain in French. Unlike English, French does not have a system of lexically contrastive stress; instead, utterances are broken down into phrases of various sizes that serve as domains for final accent (typically H on the final non-schwa syllable), optional initial accent (H on the first or second non-schwa syllable of the first content word), and optional final lengthening (see §2). A given syntactic structure may correspond to more than one accent phrasing, depending in part on rate and rhythm; (2)a and (2)b, for
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are both accept; example
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.110.2847
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~mpak/nels-pf-final.pdf
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