Abstract Haitian, a French-lexifier creole with a Gbe substrate, shows an asymmetry in the way it has adapted French liquids: the French lateral was maintained in postvocalic coda position in Haitian, but the French rhotic was systematically deleted in this position. This paper presents the results of a perception study showing that the lateral is generally more perceptible than the rhotic in coda position in Modern French. The hypothesis that perception played a role in the phonological asymmetry in Haitian is compatible with these results. The paper sketches an analysis of how the perceptual asymmetry between French coda laterals and rhotics resulted in the emergence of a new phonological grammar, distinct from both the grammar of the substrate and superstrate languages. This analysis is in line with previous works on the role of perception in second language acquisition, loanword adaptation, creolization, and sound change more generally.

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法国液体在海地的适应

摘要海天语是带有Gbe底物的法语词汇克里奥尔语克里奥尔语，在适应法国液体方面表现出不对称性：法国人的侧面在海地被保留在发声后的尾声位置，但法国人的鼻腔被系统地删除了。本文介绍了一项感知研究的结果，该研究表明，在现代法语中，侧音通常比尾音位置的斜线更易于辨认。在海地，知觉在语音不对称中起作用的假说与这些结果是一致的。这篇论文对法国尾声侧面词和韵律词之间的感知不对称如何导致新的语音语法的出现进行了分析，该语法不同于底物和上层语言的语法。