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French liaison and the lexical repository

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In this paper we propose a frequency analysis of French liaison that focuses on the liaison environments attested in the PFC database. The results of the analysis show the existence of a significant relationship (statistically interpreted as a power-law distribution) according to which a very restricted set of liaison environments has very high frequency of occurrence in the corpus and is substantially untouched by phonological and sociolinguistic variation, while a large "periphery" of infrequent uses appears to show significant aspects of style- and speaker-dependent variation. The study therefore demonstrates the importance of basing any variationist analysis on very large data sample, such as those provided by contemporary, well-reasoned linguistic corpora.
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halshs-00990472, version 1 (13-05-2014)

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Bernard Laks, Basilio Calderone, Chiara Celata. French liaison and the lexical repository. Advances in Sociophonetics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.29-54, 2014, 9789027234957. ⟨halshs-00990472⟩
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