Effets positionnels dans l'acquisition du français

Yvan Rose (1) , Christophe dos Santos (2)

1 MUN - Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada]
2 DDL - Dynamique Du Langage

This paper investigates positional effects within the word in the acquisition of French as a first language. We consider two levels of prosodic representation: the prosodic word and the foot (feet having strong and weak positions). We study only consonantal material. The results show that the prosodic word plays a central role in licensing features. This results in processes such as harmony and metathesis, all of which support the assumption that strong positions enable licensing of marked segments. If a marked segment is present in weak position, a strong position will attract it through consonant harmony or metathesis. Those phenomena appear only in early child production when markedness constraints have a higher rank in the hierarchy of constraints than faithfulness constraints.

Domaines: Linguistique

Yvan Rose, Christophe dos Santos. Effets positionnels dans l'acquisition du français. Journée d’Études sur la Parole, Apr 2004, Fez, Maroc. ⟨halshs-02475937⟩