Andreassen, Helene N.; Côté, Marie-Hélène; Eychenne, Julien; Racine, Isabelle; Detey, Sylvain (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2020-02)
In French, the close vowels [i, y, u] are subject to alternation with the glides [j, ɥ, w] in given contexts, e.g. [myɛt] ∼ [mɥɛt] ‘muteFEM’ and [sye] ∼ [sɥe] ‘sweatINF’. Factors that have proven decisive for the selection of a variant are e.g. the inherent sonority of the vowel, its position in the word, and its left segmental context (see e.g. Côté, 2018; Klein, 1991; Lyche, 1979). Also, the ...