Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 [⁹±] 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 [⁹±] 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 [⁹±] 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 [⁹±] ; 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 ; 3.2.3.2 Elision ; 3.2.4 Labial consonants ; 3.2.4.1 Insertion ; 3.2.4.2 Elision ; 3.2.5 Nasal consonants ; 3.2.5.1 Contextual insertion ; 3.2.5.2 Spontaneous insertion ; 3.3 Assimilation and dissimilation (V-to-C).