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Romance languages : a historical introduction /
"Ti Alkire and Carol Rosen trace the changes that led from colloquial Latin to five major Romance languages, those which ultimately became national or transnational languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. Trends in spoken Latin altered or dismantled older categories in ph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Romance languages; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The evolution of stressed vowels; 1.1 Syllables and word stress in Latin; 1.1.1 Why word stress matters; 1.1.2 Latin vowels; 1.1.3 Dividing syllables in Latin; 1.1.4 The Penultimate Rule; 1.2 Stressed vowels: the (almost) pan-Romance seven-vowel system; 1.2.1 How the stressed vowel system changed; 1.2.2 Extremes of the vowel triangle: i, u, a; 1.2.3 The Great Merger; 1.2.4 The high mid vowels; 1.2.5 The low mid vowels; 1.2.6 Review: primary diphthongs; 1.2.7 Stressed vowels in another perspective.
- 1.3 Special developments in stressed vowels1.3.1 Italian: failure of primary diphthongization; 1.3.2 Spanish: raising effects; 1.3.3 French: stressed vowel before nasal consonant; 1.4 The three Latin diphthongs; 1.4.1 Diphthongs from Indo-European simplify; 1.4.2 The fate of the three Latin diphthongs; Exercises; 2 Early changes in syllable structure and consonants; 2.1 Prosthetic vowels; 2.1.1 Treatment of /s/ + consonant; 2.1.2 Living versus dead rules; 2.2 Syncope and new consonant clusters; 2.2.1 General patterns of syncope; 2.2.2 New clusters from syncope: nasal + liquid.
- 2.2.3 New clusters from syncope: nasal + nasal2.3 Merger of /b/ and /w/; 2.3.1 Background on spelling convention; 2.3.2 Merger of /b/ and /w/; 2.3.3 /w/ in secondary diphthongs; 2.4 Early consonant losses; 2.4.1 Loss of /h/; 2.4.2 Loss of /n/ before /s/; 2.4.3 Loss of intervocalic /g/; 2.4.4 Loss of word-final /m/; 2.5 In search of Popular Latin speech; 2.5.1 Traces of Popular Latin; 2.5.2 The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; 2.5.3 What the Romans said about Popular Latin; 2.5.4 Latin speech: real versus reconstructed; Exercises; 3 Consonant weakening and strengthening; 3.1 Degemination.
- 3.2 Lenition3.2.1 The consonant strength gradient; 3.2.2 Lenition of intervocalic consonants; 3.2.3 The fricative stage in Old French; 3.2.4 The environment for lenition; 3.3 Other consonant weakenings; 3.3.1 The fate of velarized /l/; 3.3.2 Word-initial /f/ in Spanish; 3.3.3 Weakening of /s/; 3.3.4 Ordering of changes: an example; 3.4 Fortition; 3.4.1 Word-initial fortition of /w/; 3.4.2 Word-initial fortition of /j/; Exercises; 4 New palatal consonants; 4.1 About palatal articulation; 4.2 Yods old and new; 4.2.1 Original yods.; 4.2.2 New yods from loss of hiatus.
- 4.2.3 New yods from palatalizing clusters4.3 Yods and the growth of new consonants; 4.3.1 Original yod; 4.3.2 /d/ + yod and /g/ + yod; 4.3.3 /g/ + front vowel; 4.3.4 Summary: the merger of /g/ before front vowels, /j/, /dj/, and /gj/; 4.3.5 /k/ + front vowel; 4.3.6 /t/ + yod and /k/ + yod; 4.3.7 Sources of palatal n (n) and palatal l (y); 4.3.8 Palatalizing clusters with /l/; 4.3.9 Clusters /sk/ + front vowel, /skj/, and /stj/; 4.3.10 Clusters /kt/, /ks/, and /sk/; 4.3.11 /r/ + yod; 4.3.12 Labial + yod in French; 4.4 Charles and Charlotte; Exercises.