Abstract
Liaison is a type of external sandhi, one of several occurring at word boundaries in French. It corresponds to the pronunciation of a consonant (liaison consonant = LC) between two words, the second being vowel‐initial, in certain liaison‐triggering contexts. Liaison may apply categorically or variably, depending on the context. The data in (1) illustrate this process. The words preceding and following the LC are referred to respectively as Word1 and Word2; their canonical pronunciation in non‐liaison contexts, including in isolation, is indicated in the relevant columns. In (1b), for example, the wordsvousandallezare pronounced in isolation [vu] and [ale]; when the two words are concatenated, an intervening [z] surfaces. LCs are underlined in all examples for ease of identification.1
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