The Phonetics And Phonology Of Liaison Consonants In Montreal French
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the behaviour of liaison consonants (LCs) in Montreal French from both a phonetic and a phonological perspective. LCs are consonants that surface between two words only if certain phonological, syntactic, lexical, and socioindexical factors are met. The main question addressed here pertains to the syllabic affiliation of these consonants. Based on previous research on acoustic and articulatory cues of syllable affiliation, I designed and conducted two experiments comparing the acoustic and kinematic behaviour of LCs with the behaviour of non-alternating codas and onsets. The results are presented and then discussed through the lense of two phonological frameworks: Articulatory Phonology (AP) and Selection & Coordination Theory (SCT). I conclude that LCs in Montreal French syllabify as non-canonical codas.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it