La liaison 'obligatoire' avec et sans enchaînement

Variable and invariable liaison in a corpus of spoken French

“…Again, various of the adjectives attested in the corpus studied here exhibit such an alternation in the shape of the stem (bon, plein, ancien, premier). The fact that liaison with prenominal adjectives is limited to a small set of adjectives, many of which present stem alternations, has often been taken as evidence that liaison with these forms should not be considered a phonological, but rather an allomorphic alternation (Tranel, 1990;Steriade, 1999;Plénat, 2008), an interpretation which is fully consistent with the data considered here. (Malécot, 1975;Mallet, 2008: 213;Ranson, 2008); yet other researchers have found that liaison rates are higher for [t] than for [z] (Ashby, 1981;Lucci, 1983: 257;Encrevé, 1988: 68;de Jong, 1989a …”

“…Yet, as has often been noted, the class of prenominally occurring adjectives is closed and many of its members are function words rather than lexical words. Given that in the corpus studied here, all prenominally occurring adjectives, with the exception of the Pl forms longue-s 'long' and excellent-s 'excellent', can in fact be granted functional or semi-functional status, we follow previous assumptions that adjectival liaison is based on selection rather than on alternation (Plénat, 2008;Steriade, 1999;Tranel, 1990), that is, that prenominally occurring adjectives dispose of (at least) two lexically stored allomorphs, one vowelfinal, the other ending in a consonant. They surface with a liaison consonant if the consonant-final allomorph is selected, but without a liaison consonant if the vowel-final allomorph is selected.…”

“…Occurrences of words that could potentially be subject to liaison, but that were followed by such a boundary, were not considered possible cases of liaison, for example, occurrences of a (plural) noun or (postnominal) adjective in a subject NP when followed by a verb. Cases where the transcription contains a pause between a potential liaison word and the following word were also not considered as possible liaison contexts (but see Tranel, 1990;Plénat, 2008).…”

“…Let us consider the most important options for representation in turn. Under the straightforward assumption that the liaison consonant pertains to what is termed the target word in this study, four options have been proposed: the liaison consonant may be lexically present, but truncated where unrealized (Schane, 1968;Selkirk, 1974); it may be lexically absent, but inserted where realized (Klausenburger, 1974(Klausenburger, , 1978Tranel, 1981); it may be lexically represented as a floating consonant, remaining unrealized unless anchored to an empty onset position of the following word (Booij, 1983;Clements & Keyser, 1983;Hyman, 1985); see Tranel (1995) for a discussion of different implementations; or the target word may be lexically represented in two shapes, one with and one without liaison consonant (Gaatone, 1978;Tranel, 1990;Perlmutter, 1998;Steriade, 1999;Plénat, 2008). Finally, a recent proposal which we will build on below assumes that the liaison consonant is lexically represented, but that its status with respect to the lexeme is that of an appendix, that is, it is not part of the invariant morphological shape of the lexeme (Bonami, Boyé, & Tseng, 2005;Eychenne, 2011).…”

Le statut des consonnes de liaison : l’apport de données du français laurentien

“…Cette construction est Neveu F., Muni Toke V., Durand J., Klingler T., Mondada L., Prévost S. (éds. 2010178 également explorée par Tranel (1990), Côté (2005) et Plénat (2008. Dans les deux phrases suivantes, l'affrication paraît plus naturelle dans la première, où l'élément disloqué est précédé d'une consonne de liaison, que dans la seconde, qui implique une consonne finale stable.…”