none 10.1075/rllt.16.01ath John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 118153384 3592878 1420907 202507030758000046 10.1075 2025-07-03T05:57:53Z 2020-07-21T10:15:19Z 2 1574-552X 10.1075/rllt https://benjamins.com/ catalog/rllt Irene Vogel University of Delaware https://ror.org/01sbq1a82 Selected papers from the 47th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Del. The chapters in this book represent the theme of “bridges” – bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology and sociolinguistics. And alongside investigations of linguistic phenomena in standard Romance language varieties, other investigations address less well-known and studied, minority and endangered varieties (e.g., Quebec French, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Galician, Catalan and Palenquero) from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Romance languages in contact with other languages and bilingualism, now also integral aspects of the field, are reflected in this volume as well, including less well-known cases of contemporary contact of Serbian with Romanian, and earlier contact of African languages with Spanish and Portuguese. This volume thus continues the decades long tradition of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages of embracing cutting-edge developments in the field. 16 8 21 2020 7 21 2020 9789027205551 9789027261182 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/rllt.16 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027261182 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027261182.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/rllt.16/html Angeliki Athanasopoulou University of Calgary https://ror.org/03yjb2x39 Irene Vogel University of Delaware https://ror.org/01sbq1a82 Effects of focus and speaker Abstract The production of schwa in French is highly variable. Some of this variability is predictable based on sociolinguistic (e.g., dialects), phonological (e.g., segments, word position), and stylistic (e.g., reading) factors. We investigate the effect of prosodic structure on the production of word-final schwa in Parisian French, while controlling for the other factors. We also investigate variability in schwa production within and between speakers of the same variety. Our findings show that prosody does affect the production of schwa: the stronger the prosodic boundary, the more probable schwa production is. While this is true for all the speakers, we also found considerable variation in the rates of schwa production, despite our controlling for dialect and style. 8 21 2020 7 21 2020 7 18 10.1075/rllt.16.01ath https://benjamins.com/catalog/rllt.16.01ath https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/rllt.16.01ath/html 10.5334/gjgl.54 10.3406/flang.1999.1236 Consonant Cluster Phonotactics: A Perceptual Approach Côté 79 2001 Schwa Deletion and Epenthesis in French Schwa(s): 5e Journées d’études linguistiques de Nantes Côté 205 2007 Le rôle des représentations sous-jacentes et des contraintes de surface dans la distribution de différentes catégories de schwa en français Les règles et les sons Dell 1985 10.1515/9783111681351-008 Presentation at Bilbao-Deusto Student Conference in Linguistics Eychenne 2005 The Emergence of Prosodic Schwa in French Aspects de la phonologie du schwa dans le français contemporain: Optimalité, visibilité prosodique, gradience Eychenne 2006 Phonologie, variation et accents du français Eychenne 231 2009 La pronunciation du français au Pays Basque 10.17959/sppm.2015.21.3.457 Revue Romane Fónagy 24 2 225 1989 Le français change de visage? 10.1075/silv.11 10.1017/S0959269500001964 Polyphonie pour Iván Fónagy Hansen 173 1997 Le nouveau [ә] prépausal dans le français parlé à Paris 10.1075/silv.11.09han Structures linguistiques et interactionnelles dans le français parlé Hansen 89 2003 Le [ә] prépausal et l’interaction Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008 Lacheret 2008 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2008-117 Looking at French Schwa through the Glasses of Prosody Précis de phonostylistique. Parole et expressivité Léon 1993 Etude phonétique du français contemporain à travers la variation situationnelle: Débit, rythme, accent, intonation, ə muet, liaisons, phonèmes Lucci 1983 10.1016/0024-3841(61)90109-7 Phonologie, Variation et accents du français Pustka 307 2009 PFC et la phonologie du français en Vendee 10.3406/lfr.2000.989 10.1017/9781316212745.006 Variation and Change in French. Essays Presented to Rebecca Posner on the Occasion of her Sixtieth Birthday Walter 27 1990 Une voyelle qui ne veut pas mourir