Pub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1017/S0959269521000168
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
Abstract It is standardly assumed that French does not have word-stress, rather it has phrase-level prominence. I will advance a number of arguments, many of which have appeared already in the literature, that cumulatively suggest that French roots are characterized by phonological prominence, even if this is non-contrastive. By prominence, I mean a syntagmatically distributed strength that has all the phonological characteristics of stress in other Romance languages. I will remain agnostic about the nature of that stress, eschewing the lively debate about whether French has feet, and if so what type, and at what level. The structure of the argument is as follows. French demonstrably has phonological word-final strength but one wonders what the source of this strength is. Positionally, the initial position is strong and, independently of cases where it is reinforced by other factors, the final position is weak. I will argue, based on parallels with other Romance languages, that French word-final strength derives from root-final phonological stress. The broader significance of this conclusion is that syntagmatic properties are enough to motivate underlying forms, even in the absence of paradigmatic contrasts (minimal pairs).
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Pub Date : 2021-12-09DOI: 10.1017/S0959269521000211
Mari Wiklund, Anne Riippa
Résumé Cette étude porte sur l’intonation des énoncés interrogatifs dans la parole des apprenants finnophones du français. Le corpus consiste en des enregistrements où 15 apprenants finnophones du français et un groupe de contrôle de 5 locuteurs natifs du français lisent un extrait d’un dialogue tiré de la pièce de théâtre En attendant Godot (Beckett, 1952). Les résultats montrent qu’aussi bien les apprenants finnophones que les locuteurs natifs du français produisent une montée intonative à la fin des questions totales d’information. En ce qui concerne les questions partielles, les résultats sont plus divergents : le plus souvent, les apprenants finnophones produisent aussi une montée intonative à la fin d’une question partielle, tandis que dans la parole des locuteurs natifs, l’intonation descendante et plate sont nettement plus fréquentes. Comme l’intonation montante n’a pas de fonction interrogative établie en finnois, cette étude apporte des preuves supplémentaires du fait que tous les traits prosodiques de la parole des locuteurs L2 ne peuvent pas être expliqués par la transmission directe de la L1. La fréquence des contours montants dans la parole des apprenants finnophones est probablement liée au fait que l’importance de monter l’intonation à la fin des énoncés interrogatifs est soulignée dans l’enseignement du FLE.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-03DOI: 10.1017/S0959269521000193
A. An, Abeillé
Abstract Contrary to most French grammars claiming that French only allows masculine agreement when mixed-gender nouns are conjoined, we show that closest conjunct agreement (CCA) does exist in contemporary French, as in other Romance languages, and is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives. Using data from a large corpus (FrWac) and an acceptability rating experiment, we show that (feminine) CCA is well accepted in contemporary French, and should be distinguished from attraction errors, despite the norm prescribing masculine agreement. We also show the role of the adjective position, i.e. prenominal or post-nominal, and humanness. CCA is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives, and non-human nouns favour CCA for post-nominal adjectives. Assuming a hierarchical structure for coordination, the closest noun is the highest in A-N order, whereas it is the lowest in N-A order. Thus CCA in prenominal position may be favoured by a shorter structural distance. One can also see CCA with a prenominal adjective as ‘early’ agreement. Regarding humanness, grammatical gender is interpreted as social gender with human nouns, and a masculine plural can refer to a mixed group. This ‘gender neutral’ plural may favour masculine agreement for human nouns, or the prescriptive norm is more influential for human nouns.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s0959269521000077
Radka Mudrochová
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Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1017/s095926952100017x
Camille Bouzereau
de décrire le plus finement et le plus exhaustivement possible le comportement en discours des NdM les plus courants de notre base empirique et la culture ordinaire en dépôt dans chacun d’entre eux’ (p. 186) a été atteint. Le volume, d’un excellent niveau scientifique, aborde une thématique importante et actuelle (cf. Altmanova and Tallec 2020) au sein de la linguistique française contemporaine. Enrichi par les données d’autres domaines, comme le commerce, le marketing, le droit etc., le sujet s’appuie sur une méthodologie bien définie et emploie de manière exhaustive les outils de la linguistique de corpus. Un nombre abondant de NdM sont soumis à l’analyse et les résultats présentés et commentés avec beaucoup de clarté et de soin. Sans aucun doute, la thématique traitée par l’ouvrage intéressera un public de spécialistes, de linguistes, mais également d’étudiants et représente une contribution importante, voire majeure de l’onomastique, comme le souligne par ailleurs J. Humbley dans la préface (p. 13).
{"title":"Białas Mateusz , Le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. Rhétorique et mise en scène. (Collection Sociolinguistique.) Paris : L’Harmattan, 2020, 235 pp. 978 2 343 19189 8","authors":"Camille Bouzereau","doi":"10.1017/s095926952100017x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s095926952100017x","url":null,"abstract":"de décrire le plus finement et le plus exhaustivement possible le comportement en discours des NdM les plus courants de notre base empirique et la culture ordinaire en dépôt dans chacun d’entre eux’ (p. 186) a été atteint. Le volume, d’un excellent niveau scientifique, aborde une thématique importante et actuelle (cf. Altmanova and Tallec 2020) au sein de la linguistique française contemporaine. Enrichi par les données d’autres domaines, comme le commerce, le marketing, le droit etc., le sujet s’appuie sur une méthodologie bien définie et emploie de manière exhaustive les outils de la linguistique de corpus. Un nombre abondant de NdM sont soumis à l’analyse et les résultats présentés et commentés avec beaucoup de clarté et de soin. Sans aucun doute, la thématique traitée par l’ouvrage intéressera un public de spécialistes, de linguistes, mais également d’étudiants et représente une contribution importante, voire majeure de l’onomastique, comme le souligne par ailleurs J. Humbley dans la préface (p. 13).","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42673282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1017/S0959269520000320
Richard Huyghe, Alizée Lombard
RÉSUMÉ Cet article porte sur les propriétés sémantiques et syntaxiques des néologismes déverbaux en -age en français contemporain. À partir de l’analyse d’un échantillon de 139 néologismes et de leurs bases verbales, selon le type de procès décrit, l’aspect lexical, la structure argumentale et la grille thématique, l’étude montre que la suffixation en -age produit essentiellement des noms de procès similaires à ceux décrits par leur base. L’hypothèse est formulée que les décalages aspectuels observés dans le lexique entre verbes et nominalisations en -age sont dus au processus de lexicalisation, et non à la construction morphologique. S’agissant de la sélection des bases, contrairement à ce qui est parfois défendu pour les noms lexicalisés, aucune prédilection pour les verbes transitifs n’apparaît, et la classe aspectuelle la plus représentée est celle des activités. Par ailleurs, la polysémie des néologismes en -age relève principalement du type ‘action’ / ‘résultat’, et certains éléments laissent penser qu’elle résulte d’une figure métonymique, et non de la dérivation. Enfin, il apparaît que la formation de noms en -age dans le discours peut être diversement motivée, et que de nombreux néologismes sont créés en surabondance lexicale.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1017/S0959269520000319
Joshua M. Griffiths
ABSTRACT French licenses word-final obstruent-liquid clusters (table /tabl/; souffre /sufʁ/). These clusters may be realised faithfully resulting in an apparent violation of the sonority sequencing principle (Clements, 1990). Yet, the clusters can also be repaired in one of two ways: (1) through the reduction of the cluster (i.e. [tab]) or (2) through the epenthesis of a schwa vowel, resyllabifying the cluster into the onset position (i.e. [ta.blə].) In this article, I investigate which factors condition the realisation of word-final obstruent-liquid clusters. The results are formalised in Maximum Entropy Grammar (Goldwater and Johnson, 2003), but evidence for effects of style and speaker age require the scaling of several constraints (Coetzee and Kawahara, 2013). This study sheds light on these curious clusters, while raising new questions about the interaction of grammatical and non-grammatical factors.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1017/s0959269521000272
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1017/s0959269521000235
Lauren Sadow, K. Mullan
Bert Peeters was an exceptional scholar and colleague who left us prematurely on 22 February 2021 following a battle with brain cancer. Bert’s life and his work were infused with a passion for French linguistics, semantics, culture, applied ethnolinguistics and language pedagogy. He will be long remembered for his ability to combine these fields and for bringing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) research to European scholars.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1017/s0959269521000260
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