Consonant Induced Sound Changes In Stressed Vowels In Romance

Author : Daniel Recasens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110990942

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Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance by Daniel Recasens Pdf

The book investigates historical patterns of vowel diphthongization, assimilation and dissimilation induced by consonants – mostly (alveolo)palatals – in Romance. Compiling data from dialectal descriptions, old documentary sources and experimental phonetic studies, it explains why certain vowels undergo raising assimilation before (alveolo)palatal consonants more than others. It also suggests that in French, Francoprovençal, Occitan, Rhaetoromance and dialects from northern Italy, mid low vowel diphthongization before (alveolo)palatal consonants started out with the formation of non-canonical falling diphthongs through off-glide insertion, from which rising diphthongs could emerge at a later date (e.g., Upper Engadinian OCTO ‘eight’ > [ɔc] > [ɔ(ə̯)c] > [wac]). Both diphthongal types, rather than canonical falling diphthongs with a palatal off-glide, could also give rise to high vowels (dialectal French [li]

Author : Daniel Recasens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270382

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Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance by Daniel Recasens Pdf

This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant insertions, elisions, assimilations and dissimilations. Within the framework of the DAC (degree of articulatory constraint) model of coarticulation, it clearly demonstrates that the typology and direction of these sound changes may very largely be accounted for by the coarticulatory effects occurring between adjacent or neighbouring phonetic segments, and by the degrees of articulatory constraint imposed by speakers on the production of vowels and consonants. The phonetically-based explanations presented here are formulated on the basis of coarticulation data from speech production and perception research carried out during the last fifty years and are complemented with data on the co-occurrence of phonetic segments in lexical forms of the languages being considered. Attention is also paid to the role that positional and prosodic factors play in sound change implementation, as well as to the cognitive and peripheral strategies involved in segmental replacements, elisions and insertions.

Author : Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110548679

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Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology by Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg Pdf

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.

Author : Viola Giulia Miglio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135456870

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Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems by Viola Giulia Miglio Pdf

Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.

Author : Richard J. de Alquen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110873924

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Gothic ai and au by Richard J. de Alquen Pdf

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677108

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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages by Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden Pdf

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Author : Daniel Recasens,Full Professor Department of Catalan Philology Daniel Recasens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198845010

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Phonetic Causes of Sound Change by Daniel Recasens,Full Professor Department of Catalan Philology Daniel Recasens Pdf

This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies have been concerned with the typology of sound inventories and of the processes of palatalization and assibilation, this volume not only deals with the typological patterns but also outlines the articulatory and acoustic causes of these sound changes. In his articulation-based account, Daniel Recasens argues that the affricate and fricative outcomes of these changes developed via an intermediate stage, namely an (alveolo)palatal stop with varying degrees of closure fronting. Particular emphasis is placed on the one-to-many relationship between the input and output consonant realizations, on the acoustic cues that contribute to the implementation of these sound changes, and on the contextual, positional, and prosodic conditions that most favour their development. The analysis is based on extensive data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic, and draws on a variety of sources, such as linguistic atlases, articulatory and acoustic studies, and phoneme identification tests.

Author : Haruko Momma,Michael Matto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470657935

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A Companion to the History of the English Language by Haruko Momma,Michael Matto Pdf

A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars. An accessible reference to the history of the English language Comprises more than sixty essays written by leading international scholars Aids literature students in incorporating language study into their work Includes an historical survey of the English language, from its Germanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British and American English Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historical publications Introduces the latest scholarship in the field

Author : Guido Mensching,Frank Savelsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110394153

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Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology by Guido Mensching,Frank Savelsberg Pdf

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

Author : Bernhard Hurch,Richard A. Rhodes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110908992

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Natural Phonology by Bernhard Hurch,Richard A. Rhodes Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079593185

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Honeybone,Joseph Salmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643644

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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology by Patrick Honeybone,Joseph Salmons Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality and some continuing themes of one of the oldest sub-disciplines of linguistics. The book is divided into six parts. The first considers key current research questions, the early history of the field, and the structuralist context for work on segmental change. The second examines evidence and methods, including phonological reconstruction, typology, and computational and quantitative approaches. Part III looks at types of phonological change, including stress, tone, and morphophonological change. Part IV explores a series of controversial aspects within the field, including the effects of first language acquisition, the status of lexical diffusion and exceptionless change, and the role of individuals in innovation. Part V considers theoretical perspectives on phonological change, including those of evolutionary phonology and generative historical phonology. The final part examines sociolinguistic and exogenous factors in phonological change, including the study of change in real time, the role of second language acquisition, and loanword adaptation. The authors, who represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective, consider phonological change over a wide range of the world's language families. The handbook is, in sum, a valuable resource for phonologists and historical linguists and a stimulating guide for their students.

Author : Natalie Operstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248282

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Consonant Structure and Prevocalization by Natalie Operstein Pdf

Preface & acknowledgments -- Part I. The theory: 1. Consonant prevocalization -- 2. Intrasegmental consonant structure -- 3. Related processes -- Part II. The data: 4. Front prevowels -- 5. Other prevowels -- 6. Conclusions and outlook -- References -- Appendix I: Rosapelly's vocaloid -- Appendix II: Languages in the survey

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NWU:35556026992149

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New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin B. Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512808957

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From Latin to Portuguese by Edwin B. Williams Pdf

Widely recognized as the standard work in its field, this volume traces in systematic form the history of the development of the sounds and forms of the Portuguese language from its Latin beginnings. Based upon years of research and painstaking consideration of all the significant publications on the subject, it clarifies a great deal that has been obscure in the transition from Latin to Old Portuguese, to modern Portuguese, and to Brazilian Portuguese. It also helps resolve many of the complex problems of Spanish and general Romance philology. For the second edition of From Latin to Portuguese, the author, Edwin B. Williams, has made substantial additions and revisions, has brought the bibliography up to date, and has utilized the latest research to reevaluate and confirm his original conclusions. In the light of these adjustments and the new material made available by Williams, this extraordinary synthesis must be classified as an indispensable handbook for the student and scholar working in the areas of Portuguese, Hispanic, and Romance philology.