This thesis investigates a number of phonological phenomena in Picard, a Gallo-Romance dialect spoken France: Across-Word Regressive Assimilation and its variation patterns, and the domain-sensitive strategies that the language employs in the Resolution of Vocalic Hiatus (i.e. Semivocalization, Vowel Elision and Heterosyllabification). More generally, the thesis is about "variation" in its broadest sense. It explores variation that occurs within a single prosodic domain as well as the type of variation that operates across domains; while the former is variable and triggered by linguistic and extralinguistic factors (and is thus the subject of sociolinguistic investigation), the latter is invariable and strictly determined by domains. For the analysis of these two types of "variation", I adopt the framework of Optimality Theory. One of the advantages of this framework is that it allows us to account for domain-driven and sociolinguistic variation within a language by means of a single grammar. In the context of domain-sensitive phenomena, this can be accomplished by the decomposition of constraints into their domain-specific counterparts, each of which may be ranked independently within a single grammar to yield the alternations observed across domains. Based on this line of research and influenced by insights from Prosodic Phonology, I propose an approach to the decomposition of constraints in which only prosodic domains may serve for constraint specification. I argue that this is advantageous because it constrains the grammar by imposing limitations on the types of domains that may be subject to decomposition, and captures Prosodic Phonology's view that the interface between phonology and morphosyntax must be indirect, that is, mediated by domains from the prosodic hierarchy. In the context of variation triggered by linguistic and extralinguistic factors, I argue that variable patterns are best analyzed as the result of crucial nonranking of constraints. A posit / Cette these examine un nombre de phenomenes phonologiques dans le Picard, un dialecte Gallo-roman parle en France : l' Assimilation regressive a travers le mot et les patrons de variation qui gouvement ce processus, ainsi que les strategies sensibles aux domaines que la langue emploie pour la Resolution de hiatus vocalique (i.e. Formation de semi-voyelles, Elision vocalique et Heterosyllabification). Plus generalement, la these traite de la « variation,» dans son sens le plus large. Elle explore la variation qui se produit dans un seul domaine prosodique de meme que le type de variation qui opere a travers les domaines; tandis que le premier est variable et declenche par des facteurs linguistiques et extra-linguistiques (etant ansi le sujet d'investigations sociolinguistiques), le dernier est invariable et strictement determine par les domaines. Pour l'analyse de ces deux types de « variation », j'adopte le cadre theorique de la theorie de l'optimalite. L'un des avantages de cette theorie est qu'elle nous permet d'expliquer les variations qui s'appliquent a la fois par le domaine phonologique et par les facteurs sociolinguistiques gouvernant une langue au moyen d'une seule grammaire. Dans le contexte de phenomenes sensibles aux domaines, ceci peut etre accompli par la decomposition de contraintes dans leurs homologues qui sont specifiques sur les domaines, dont chacun peut etre independamment classe dans une seule grammaire pour produire les alternances observees entre les domaines. Base sur cette ligne de recherche et influence par les fondements de la Phonologie prosodique, je propose une approche a la decomposition de contraintes selon laquelle seulement les domaines prosodiques peuvent servir pour la specification de contraintes. Je soutiens que cette approche offre des avantages marques, parce qu' elle contraint la grammaire en imposant des limitations sur les types de domaines qui peuvent etre sujets a la decomposition. De plus, cette approche est compa

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Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The subject of my Thesis is the syntactic interference of German in the French of the Moselle region. The geographical location of this Department, situated close to the German border, leads me to believe that French and German are in contact in this region given their geographic proximity and the history of the area. My Thesis is divided into two main sections. First, through a detailed analysis of relevant syntactic structures in French and German, I put forth several hypotheses concerning the syntactic interference of German in the French spoken in the Moselle Department. Then, I tested these hypotheses through extensive fieldwork by interviewing two different groups of speakers, young and old, and by analyzing those data produced which indicated some degree of German interference in French. I then submitted these data to the same speakers to obtain their grammaticality judgments. My analysis has led me to establish an important typological distinction between the sentences produced by the younger speakers and those produced by the elderly, and to uncover a hierarchy in the acceptability of the sentences submitted to these speakers, which I discuss and attempt to explain.

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Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished