What is it about?
Unlike other liaison consonants in French, which normally occurs only before a vowel, a liaison consonant [t] after the conjunction "quand" may be observed before a word beginning with a consonant, as in "je me demande quand [t] Pierre viendra" (I wonder when Pierre will come).
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Why is it important?
Challenges current views on the nature of consonant liaison as a sandhi phenomenon.
Perspectives
This paper established that syntax can be a genuine source for sandhis.
Yves Morin
Universite de Montreal
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This page is a summary of: La Prononciation de [t] Après Quand, Lingvisticae Investigationes, January 1990, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/li.14.1.09mor.
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