Pour une approche herméneutique de la liaison : les discours épilinguistiques et métalinguistiques des étudiants universitaires parisiens
The study tested the epilinguistic and metalinguistic awareness of French liaison by university students who were native speakers of French (N=18). The task consisted in listening to an oral passage that included deviant realizations of liaisons and other phonological phenomena, spotting the anomalies and commenting on them freely with the interviewer. A first aim was to investigate whether speakers’ epilinguistic awareness of liaison was affected by the classification of liaison contexts as obligatory, optional or forbidden liaisons.