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Resume Nous abordons dans ce travail la place du mot dans la phonologie du francais. Nous montrons qu'un ensemble de phenomenes phonologiques conspirent a donner au mot une importance toute particuliere et nous etudions un nouveau type d'accentuation de plus en plus repandu chez les locuteurs francais qui prennent regulierement la parole en public. Apres avoir donne les caracteristiques de cet accent, que nous appelons accent initial, nous envisageons comment il influe sur certains domaines de la phonologie du francais, comme par exemple la liaison et la chute de schwa, modifiant aussi les regles de syllabation et la structure prosodique. Nous montrons enfin que la fonction principale de l'accent initial est de donner au mot une autonomie encore plus marquee.

This paper maintains that the extant transformational generative analyses of French glides have to be rejected not only because of their abstractness (complete naturalization rules) but also because they are inconsistent with the very principles of transformational generative phonology. A natural generative analysis is then proposed which questions the conditions put by natural generative phonology on underlying forms. The forms examined here show that there exist cases where the underlying representations of alternating morphemes are not identical to one of their phonetic realizations. Furthermore, it is also contended that Rudes' (1976) model for the description of different tempos (from slow to fast speech) is not totally adequate and in particular that the output of one tempo cannot be the input to the next, faster one.