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.