Data belonging to the article "Syllabification in Language Contact between French and Vietnamese"

This dataset belongs to an article which will appear in the ICAAL 8 conference proceedings and which is dedicated to the syllabification in two language contact settings between Vietnamese and French. The paper discusses gemination and related phenomena. First, it contributes to the theoretical discussion on borrowing processes in loanwords and presents a model that includes all extant views and also accounts for other language contact situations.  In our data analysis, we compare loan data to experimental data, and find similar processes in both scenarios. Syllable boundaries are shifted, consonants are geminated and consonant slots are doubled in certain syllabic environments. The emergence of gemination is especially noteworthy as it is only a marginal phenomenon in French and has not been found to exist in Vietnamese. Results provide evidence for our hypothesis that optimal Vietnamese syllables are closed, as these syllables have the highest frequency in the native lexicon. This goes beyond, but also corresponds to the idea that Vietnamese has a dimoraic minimum, and this paper provides more evidence for it.

本数据集隶属于一篇将发表于ICAAL 8会议论文集的学术文章，该文章聚焦越南语与法语之间两类语言接触场景下的音节划分问题。本文探讨了辅音叠长（gemination）及相关音系现象。首先，本文针对借词的借入过程展开理论探讨，提出了一套涵盖现有全部观点、同时可适配其他语言接触场景的理论模型。在数据分析环节，我们将借词语料与实验语料进行对比，发现两类场景下存在相似的音系过程：音节边界发生偏移、辅音出现叠长现象，且特定音节环境下辅音槽出现翻倍情况。值得特别关注的是辅音叠长现象：该现象在法语中仅为边缘性音系现象，而此前在越南语中从未被发现存在。研究结果为我们的假说提供了实证支撑：最优越南语音节为闭音节——这一点在本土词汇库中闭音节占比最高的现象得到了印证。该结论既拓展了"越南语具备双摩拉最小音节阈值"的相关学术观点，同时也与之相符，本文为此提供了更多实证依据。