The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa

Main author: Charette, Monik
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description On the surface Acadian French appears to have word-initial and word-internal branching onsets. A closer look at the data however, reveals that no branching onsets can be followed by schwa. This fact leads me to propose that the TR clusters of Acadian French are bogus and that onsets do not branch in this dialect of French. [TRV] sequences have the structure of two separate onsets with a p-licensed and unrealised empty nucleus occurring between the stop and the liquid. When such a bogus cluster (i.e. /TøR/) is followed by a nucleus which is lexically empty, the form surfaces as [TəR] as a result of ECP.
author_additional Lindsey, Geoff
author_additionalStr Lindsey, Geoff
format Book Chapters
author Charette, Monik
author_facet Charette, Monik
authorStr Charette, Monik
author_letter Charette, Monik
title The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa
publisher John Benjamins
publishDate 2018
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24754/