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The Initial Position in Southern French : Elision , Suppletion , Emergence

Although there is a body of literature on Southern French (SF hereafter, see Brun 1931; Durand 1976; Durand et al. 1987; Séguy 1951 inter alia) many aspects of its phonology still remain unexplored. In this paper, we investigate the behaviour of ‘schwa’ in phrase-initial and word-initial position. Based on a corpus of 20 speakers from the département of Aveyron, we show that the deletion of the vowel in these positions preferably occurs in frequent words and constructions. We show that this lexical conditionning is better captured in an exemplar-based framework.