In Standard French, -tense vowels (see Morin 1983) have the same distribution within masculine word-final sequences as sequences comprising a lax vowel and a liquid;-unlike final obstruents, which are very often latent, liquids are almost invariably fixed in word-final position;-alternating nasal vowels, which are tense, usually alternate with a lax oral vowel followed by a nasal consonant. These remarks suggest that in French, rime is composed of two slots, both restricted to sonorants, the first being linked to a vowel autosegment, and the second to the selfsame autosegment (hence tense vowels), or to a sonorant consonant.To describe the difference in behavior which distinguishes latent obstruents from fixed obstruents, it is necessary to posit a special feature, which also accounts for exceptions to the nasalization rule, and for the unusual behavior of certain liquids. Marked consonants are probably fixed consonants which the special feature requires to be appended outside the rime proper, as our investigation of a morphological peculiarity concerning reduplicated diminutives tends to suggest.
Pour des raisons d'économie, la grammaire générative classique s'efforçait de dériver toutes les manifestations d'un même lexème à partir d'une forme sous-jacente unique. Ainsi, par exemple, à suivre
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