In everyday speech of ordinary people, liaison always goes hand in hand with resyllabification, the linking consonant attaching itself to the initial vowel of the following word (e. g. petit ami [pəti.ta.mi]). However, there are also cases of liaison without resyllabification, especially in public and media speech. This paper analyzes the 105 cases attested in a corpus of 77 hours of read aloud speech (including 13 recordings of literary works). Our analysis suggests that liaison without resyllabification may represent a strategy of “staged scripturality” in the oral medium, the counterpart to the well-known phenomenon of “staged orality” in the written medium.