(Final) Nasalization as an Alternative to (Final) Devoicing: The Case of Vimeu Picard
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The Vimeu variety of Picard (VP), spoken in northern France, exhibits stop~nasal alternations as in réponne 'to answer' vs répondu 'answered.' We attribute the nasalization of voiced stops in VP to a constraint against voiced obstruents, a constraint most often responsible for obstruent devoicing. Just as positional faithfulness often protects onsets from devoicing, it protects onset stops from nasalizing in VP, thus the /d/ of répondu surfaces faithfully. Variation in stop nasalization is due to overlapping, stochastic constraint rankings. The co-occurrence of stop and vowel nasalization also leads us to discuss nasal(ized) vowels. Here, we argue that [nasalV] ~ [VN] alternations, as in chatchun 'each-one.masc' vs chatcheune 'each-one.fem,' support the view of at least some nasal vowels in VP as underlying /V~/ sequences, where the symbol ~ represents a floating nasal. For the sake of representational consistency, we extend this representation to non-alternating nasal vowels as well.
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