Assimilation and opacity in Cotentinois and Island Norman: the derivational perspective

This research examines the dialectal and subdialectal variation which characterizes the phonology of intervocalic ‘r’ in several varieties of Lower Norman. It shows the complexities that result from the interaction of contextual lenition, schwa-deletion and assimilation. It disentangles the transparent processes which could easily be created by surface constraints from those which, in spite of being entirely productive in isolation, do not end up being surface-true.