One striking feature of Vimeu Picard concerns the regular insertion of epenthetic vowels in
order to break up consonant clusters and to syllabify word-initial and word-final consonants …

Abstract The French Constitution states that" la langue de la République est le français"[the
language of the French Republic is French]. Yet, this prescription does not make France a …

A Romance perspective on language knowledge and use Current Issues in Linguistic
Theory EDITED bY Rafael Núñez-Cedeño Luis López Richard Cameron JOHN …

Pronominal clitics have long been a major area of research in Romance linguistics.
Recently, our curiosity about these notoriously difficult elements has been rekindled through …

The Princess and Picard 1 Once there were two princesses-twins, as it happenswho lived
side by side in nearby provinces. They resembled each other so closely that in public people …

This chapter provides a survey of syllable structure and resyllabification in Romance
languages. On the one hand, onsets, nuclei, and codas are described according to their …

Vimeu Picard2 (VP) is one of numerous languages, including many Gallo-Romance
varieties, in which epenthesis plays an important role in assuring prosodie well-formedness …

1. Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre du projet de recherche «Évolution et variation de
pronoms explétifs et neutres dans les langues romanes», dirigé par Georg A. Kaiser. Ce …

Vimeu Picard2 (VP) is one of numerous languages, including many Gallo-Romance
varieties, in which epenthesis plays an important role in assuring prosodie well-formedness …

The goal of this paper is to present findings about vowel lengthening at morpho-syntactically
defined prosodic boundaries. The data come from a corpus of spontaneous speech from …