Liaison et conscience phonologique en Côte d’Ivoire. Analyse des réponses épi- et métaphonologiques face à un test d’acceptabilité administré aux adultes abidjanais

French liaison and phonological awareness in Côte d’Ivoire : an analysis of epiphonological and metaphonological answers to an acceptability judgment test administrated on native university students in Abidjan. Via an acceptability judgment test administrated on 22 university students in Abidjan we will study the explicit subjective perception that native Ivorian speakers have about French liaison, a complex phenomenon of French phonology whose realization depends on the combination of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Firstly, we asked the participants to listen to an oral passage including a number of deviant realizations of liaison and to spot the pronunciations that they considered anomalous: the aim of this task was to observe the informants’ epiphonological reactions. Secondly, we asked them to give an oral explanation of their answers: the aim of this task was to elicit and quantify metaphonological awareness. The analysis of the Ivorian corpus and its comparison with an analogue survey conducted in Paris (Celata, De Flaviis&Floquet, to be published) will allow us: to investigate whether native Ivorian speakers' epilinguistic awareness of liaison correspond to the classification of liaison contexts as obligatory, optional or forbidden liaisons as showed in the PFC corpus; to investigate the presence of a population effect (Abidjan vs Paris); to describe the variety of conscious explanations and arguments underlying the use of liaison in Côte d’Ivoire; to consider the naive intuitions as an informative instrument for the current corpus data about French liaison.