摘要：Elision is the least well investigated of the processes collectively known as ‘linking phenomena’ in French phonology. Data from a corpus of late 20th-century interviews show that 39% of new CV onsets created by forward resyllabification are due to elision (considerably more than those due to liaison or enchaînement of fixed consonants) and a further 9% to sites created by intrusive fillers (notably euh and hein), a source hitherto overlooked. Yet elision is not categorical. We document instances of minor but stable variability alongside tokens of non-elision of que and its compound forms. Non-elision is characteristic of fluent, relaxed speech and seems to be spreading. We argue that it is not motivated by phonology but by register and discourse factors in continuous speech.
