Zompist Bboard Again

To be honest I haven't visited the ZBB or CBB in a long time. Just happened to peruse and wanted to give you a response since no one else had yet! By the way, what do you say about the proportion of the use of [j] or [ i ] for il instead of [il]? Is it basically universal so it rests as a matter of ...

Preface: I speak Eastern Ontarian French, which is pretty close to Outaouais French and somewhat close to Montreal French. Q1: The sound change is from /ɛ/ to /a/ in an open syllable. So for the imperative form, "il aimait" /il ɛmɛ/ becomes [jama] ( note the vowel change in the first syll...