Coarticulation and sound change in Romance / Daniel Recasens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Recasens i Vives, Daniel, 1954- author.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Volume 329, Series IV.

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory : Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science ; Volume 329, Series IV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Phonology.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Accents and accentuation.

Romance languages--Word formation.

Romance languages--Consonants.

Romance languages--Vowels.

Mutation (Phonetics).

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""COARTICULATION AND SOUND CHANGE IN ROMANCE""; ""Editorial page ""; ""Title page ""; ""LCC data ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Preface and acknowledgments""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Theories of coarticulation and the degree of articulatory constraint model ""; ""1.2 Segmental articulation and coarticulation: General concepts ""; ""1.2.1 Articulatory constraints for vowels and consonants ""; ""1.2.2 Coarticulatory sensitivity, aggressiveness and directionality ""; ""1.3 Segmental insertion and elision ""; ""1.4 Assimilation and dissimilation ""

""1.5 Organization of the monograph """"1.6 Background information on the Romance languages ""; ""1.6.1 Languages and dialects ""; ""1.6.2 Evolution of Latin linguistic sounds into Romance ""; ""2. Consonant-dependent processes involving target vocalic segments""; ""2.1 Articulatory and coarticulatory characteristics of consonants ""; ""2.1.1 Alveolars [É«] and [r], and the bilabiovelar [w] ""; ""2.1.1.1 Typology and syllabic allophones ""; ""2.1.1.2 Production ""; ""2.1.1.3 Coarticulation ""; ""2.1.2 (Alveolo)palatals, palatalized consonants and velars ""; ""2.1.2.1 Production ""

""2.1.2.2 Coarticulation """"2.1.3 Dentals and clear alveolars ""; ""2.1.4 Labial and nasal consonants ""; ""2.2 Segmental insertion and elision ""; ""2.2.1 General considerations ""; ""2.2.1.1 Glide insertion and elision mechanisms ""; ""2.2.1.2 Glide insertion and segmental complexity ""; ""2.2.1.3 Vowel insertion and elision mechanisms ""; ""2.2.2 Glide insertion and elision processes ""; ""2.2.2.1 Alveolars [É«] and [r], and the bilabiovelar [w] ""; ""2.2.2.2 (Alveolo)palatals and palatalized consonants ""; ""2.2.2.3 Dentals and alveolars ""; ""2.2.2.4 Velars ""; ""2.2.2.5 Labials ""

""2.2.2.6 Nasalized vowels """"2.2.3 Vowel insertion and elision processes ""; ""2.2.3.1 Word-initial position ""; ""2.2.3.2 Word-final position ""; ""2.2.3.3 Word-medial position ""; ""2.2.4 Summary ""; ""2.2.4.1 Glide insertion and elision ""; ""2.2.4.2 Vowel insertion and elision ""; ""2.2.4.3 Towards a reinterpretation of vowel diphthongization processes in Romance ""; ""2.3 Assimilation and dissimilation ""; ""2.3.1 Database of the analysis ""; ""2.3.2 Assimilation ""; ""2.3.2.1 Alveolar lateral [ɫ] and trill [r] ""; ""2.3.2.2 (Alveolo)palatals ""; ""2.3.2.3 Dentals and alveolars ""

""2.3.2.4 Velars """"2.3.2.5 Labials ""; ""2.3.2.6 Nasality ""; ""2.3.3 Dissimilation ""; ""2.3.3.1 Back consonants and labials ""; ""2.3.3.2 (Alveolo)palatals ""; ""2.3.4 Summary ""; ""2.3.4.1 Assimilatory and dissimilatory direction ""; ""2.3.4.2 Word position ""; ""2.3.4.3 Interactive contextual effects ""; ""3. Vowel-dependent processes""; ""3.1 Articulatory and acoustic properties of vowels ""; ""3.2 Consonant insertion and elision ""; ""3.2.1 Alveolar lateral [É«] ""; ""3.2.2 (Alveolo)palatal consonants ""; ""3.2.2.1 Insertion ""; ""3.2.2.2 Elision ""; ""3.2.3 Velar consonants ""

""3.2.3.1 Insertion ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270382

9027270384

OCLC:

878523509