A note of final consonant deletion in modern French

Exceptionality in optimality theory and final consonants in French

“…Interestingly, this outcome is actually broadly attested in another French dialect, Montreal French, as well as sporadically in standard French (see Tranel 1976;1981a,b) (in Montreal French, high vowels are lax in closed syllables, a detail that can be ignored here).…”

“…t V hui<t> . CV huit // mixed: (t)-t Previous treatments have handled these mixed-behavior words in complete disconnection from the rest of the grammar, viewing them as arbitrary exceptions to phonological rules (Schane 1968, Tranel 1976, Clements & Keyser 1983 or as requiring special allomorphy rules (Klausenburger 1984, Picard 1984. Such analyses make it a complete accident that these words behave in the way they do.…”

Nigel Love, Generative phonology: a case-study from French. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981. Pp. viii + 241. - Bernard Tranel, Concreteness in generative phonology: evidence from French. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 324.

“…Moreover, abstract segments (such as the /h/-aspire of hanneton) are barred in favour of exception features; extrinsic order is in principle disallowed and one of the surface allomorphs must be chosen as underlying. At this level of generality, this can also be said to be the position of Tranel (1974Tranel ( , 1976, the two studies considered by Love.…”

Universal constraints on variably deleted final consonants: evidence from Spanish

“…3 See Tranel (1976) for data from Montreal French (from Pupier and Drapeau 1973); he also mentions evidence from Sanskrit (from Whitney, 1971:150-51).…”