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Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance : Assimilatory, dissimilatory and diphthongization processes / Daniel Recasens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; 477Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 525 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111000459
  • 9783110990942
  • 9783110990805
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 440.04158 23/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spanish -- 3 Asturleonese, Aragonese -- 4 Portuguese -- 5 Catalan -- 6 Occitan -- 7 Tuscan and Northern Italian -- 8 Ladin -- 9 Romansh -- 10 Francoprovençal -- 11 French -- 12 General summary and discussion -- 13 Conclusions -- References
Summary: 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] ‹ LECTU, [fuj] ‹ FOLIA). This same Gallo-Romance diphthongization process operated in Catalan ([ʎit], [ˈfuʎə]). In Spanish, on the other hand, mid low vowels followed by highly constrained (alveolo)palatals became too close to undergo the diphthongization process ([ˈletʃo], [ˈoxa]).

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spanish -- 3 Asturleonese, Aragonese -- 4 Portuguese -- 5 Catalan -- 6 Occitan -- 7 Tuscan and Northern Italian -- 8 Ladin -- 9 Romansh -- 10 Francoprovençal -- 11 French -- 12 General summary and discussion -- 13 Conclusions -- References

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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] ‹ LECTU, [fuj] ‹ FOLIA). This same Gallo-Romance diphthongization process operated in Catalan ([ʎit], [ˈfuʎə]). In Spanish, on the other hand, mid low vowels followed by highly constrained (alveolo)palatals became too close to undergo the diphthongization process ([ˈletʃo], [ˈoxa]).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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