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French ‘Schwa’ Deletion in Natural Generative Phonology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Chantal Lyche
Chantal Lyche
Affiliation:
Romansk inst. avd. A., University of Oslo. Norway.
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of french schea deletion where, in agreemant with some basic principles of natural Generative Phonology, all rules are obligatory and not extrinsically ordered. This analysis is at variance with Dell's (1973) treatmant. It is contended that even if, as suggested by Rudes (1976), marking each phonological rule for applying only within a certain tempo can eliminate from the phonological component true optional rules, a certain amount of optionality must still be allowed within a rule. Furthermore, the nature of French schwa deletion forces us to reject rudes' model where the output of a tempo is the input to the next faster one.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , December 1979 , pp. 91 - 111
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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