Norm and Ideology in Spoken French

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French. Liaison affects a number of word-final consonants which are realized before a vowel but not pre-pausally or before a consonant. Liaisons have traditionally been classified as  obligatoire  (obligatory),  interdite  (forbidden) and  facultative  (optional), the latter category subject to a highly complex prescriptive