Replication data for: Allomorphs of French de in coordination: a reproducible study

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It is known that French de ‘of’ can take wide scope in coordination—that is, the coordination can optionally be reduced by omitting the second de: de X et/ou (de) Y, meaning roughly ‘of X and/or (of) Y’. De has an allomorph d’ that is used when the following word begins with a vowel. This paper shows, using a large written corpus, that the two allomorphs, de and d’, do not behave the same when it comes to reduction/wide scope. Two main factors seem to be at play: resistance of the d’ allomorph to taking wide scope, and hiatus avoidance between et/ou (which are both vowel-final) and a following vowel-initial word. The existence of phonological factors that affect reduction rate implies that the grammar and/or processing architecture must retrieve some phonological information about X and Y before the final “decision” about reduction is made—or that the phonology is powerful enough to delete the second de on its own. This paper also aims to make a methodological contribution to reproducibility. The web materials accompanying the paper (scripts and documentation) allow the reader to reproduce all the steps of the data processing analysis, starting from a publicly available corpus.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.18710/GF8QZ5
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2014-1017
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Creator Zuraw, Kie
Publisher DataverseNO
Contributor Zuraw, Kie; University of California, Los Angeles; The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
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Contact Zuraw, Kie (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Discipline Humanities