• Comment le schwa et la consonne de liaison vacillent et s'évanouissent dans le vaudois : un traitement de la variation 

      Andreassen, Helene N. (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2003)
      La variation linguistique est indissociable de toute langue naturelle, et les facteurs qui la conditionnent doivent recevoir une explication de la part du linguiste. L’instabilité superficielle du schwa et de la consonne de liaison constitue l’une des caractéristiques les plus saillantes du français, et dans ce mémoire, nous tenterons de dégager la régularité dans leur variation ainsi que la ...
    • Enchaînement, liaison, accentuation chez les apprenants norvégophones 

      Andreassen, Helene N.; Lyche, Chantal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Given that their L1, Norwegian, and their L2, English, are lexical stress languages, Norwegian speakers will equally tend to stress lexical words during the course of acquisition of L3 French, insuring the prosodic autonomy of each word. In the present paper, we show that this strategy slows down the acquisition of two external sandhi phenomena in French, i.e. liaison and final consonant linking. ...
    • The French foot revisited 

      Andreassen, Helene N.; Eychenne, Julien (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This article aims to re-evaluate the relevance of the foot in French. After a critical review of the literature on the subject, with reference to both adult and child language, we argue that the prosodic structure of French is best understood within a grid-only framework. The model is couched in Stratal Optimality Theory and illustrated with naturalistic data drawn from southern French and Swiss ...
    • Schwa: distribution and acquisition in light of Swiss French data 

      Andreassen, Helene N. (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-06-27)
      In adult French phonology, schwa is a separate vowel category that either deletes or merges with /œ/ in the output. This thesis revolves around the distribution, categorisation and acquisition of schwa. We test two main hypotheses on the basis of Swiss French adult and child data: one, that schwa does not constitute a separate category in early child language, and two, that the acquisition of schwa ...