Palatal sound change in the romance languages : diachronic and synchronic perspectives / André Zampaulo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zampaulo, André, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 38.

Oxford linguistics

Oxford Linguistics

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Phonology, Historical.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Palatalization.

Romance languages--Phonetics.

Palatalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1.1 The Romance languages p. 1

1.2 Romance "palatals" p. 2

1.3 Approach and objectives p. 4

1.4 Book outline p. 6

2 Theoretical considerations p. 8

2.2 The concept of sound change p. 10

2.2.1 The origins vs the spread of sound change p. 10

2.2.2 The possibility of sound change p. 11

2.3 Optimality Theory p. 14

2.3.1 Phonetically based Optimality Theory p. 16

2.3.2 Optimality and sound change p. 19

2.3.3 Constraint reranking and the explanation of sound change p. 20

2.4 The role of the speaker and the listener-turned-speaker in sound change p. 21

2.5 A non-teleological constrained-based model of sound change p. 26

3 The phonetics of palatals p. 31

3.2 The phonetics of palatal vowels and the glide [j] p. 32

3.3 The phonetics of palatal sonorants p. 34

3.4 The phonetics of palatal obstruents p. 39

4 Palatals in the history of the Romance languages p. 46

4.2 The emergence of Latin YOD p. 47

4.3 The emergence of the palatal lateral [λ] p. 49

4.3.1 First-stage [λ] (λ₁) p. 49

4.3.2 Second-stage [λ] (λ₂) p. 62

4.4 The emergence of the palatal nasal [n] p. 78

4.4.1 [-nj-] p. 78

4.4.2 [gn] and [n:] p. 80

4.5 The emergence of palatal obstruents p. 83

4.5.1 [j-] p. 83

4.5.2 [dj gj j] p. 87

4.5.3 [gi ge gε] and [ki ke kε] p. 89

4.5.4 *[kæ gæ] p. 92

4.5.5 [sj] and [s] p. 93

4.5.6 [tj kj] p. 94

4.5.7 [kt ks] p. 95

4.5.8 [pi kl fl bl gl] and [pj bj mj vj] p. 96

5 Palatals in the Romance languages today p. 99

5.2 Palatals in Ibero-Romance varieties p. 100

5.2.1 The rise and spread of YEISMO in Modern Spanish p. 100

5.2.2 Palatals in the languages of Spain p. 105

5.2.3 Palatals in the Spanish dialects of Hispanic America and other varieties p. 113

5.2.4 Palatals in Portuguese varieties p. 143

5.3 Palatals in Gallo-Romance p. 144

5.4 Palatals in Italo-Romance and Sardinian p. 145

5.5 Palatals in Rhaeto-Romance and Eastern Romance varieties p. 147

6 Palatal sound change in the Romance languages: A unified account p. 150

6.2 Sound change as constraint reranking p. 151

6.3 Pathways for the emergence and evolution of palatal sonorants p. 153

6.4 Pathways for the emergence and evolution of palatal obstruents p. 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198807384

9780198807384

OCLC:

1080999959