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Old French Epenthesis and Syllabic Structure*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh*
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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In a provocative article in a recent issue of this journal, Walker (1978) accounts for Old French (OF) alternations of the type ancestre: ancessour, mendre: menour, prendre:prenons, and cosdre: cousons with a synchronic rule of consonant epenthesis given in (1) below:

The purpose of this remark is to argue that even if OF can be said to have consonant epenthesis as a synchronic phonological process (for some convincing arguments to the contrary, see Morin 1980 [above in this volume]), Walker’s formulation of it leaves a lot to be desired.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , Fall 1980 , pp. 226 - 230
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1980

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