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/s/-deletion in Old French and the aftermath of compensatory lengthening

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

MARC PICARD
Affiliation:
Concordia University

Abstract

It has recently been argued by Gess (2001) that the long vowels resulting from the compensatory lengthening that emerged in the wake of preconsonantal /s/-deletion in Old French had all been shortened by the sixteenth century. Given that many of these long vowels are still present in Canadian French, this conclusion cannot possibly be correct. What will be shown here is precisely how Gess' methodology led him to obtain such counterfactual results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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