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Author: Rodney Sampson Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199541159 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 303
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This text presents a comparative, historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. The author describes in detail the formal characteristics, historical trajectory, and likely causes of the different types of prosthesis operating in Romance.
Author: Rodney Sampson Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199541159 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
This text presents a comparative, historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. The author describes in detail the formal characteristics, historical trajectory, and likely causes of the different types of prosthesis operating in Romance.
Author: Rodney Sampson Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191571644 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 304
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This book presents for the first time an in-depth historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. Vowel prosthesis is a change which involves the appearance of a non-etymological vowel at the beginning of a word: a familiar example is the initial e which appears in the development of Latin sperare to Spanish esperar and French espérer to hope. Despite its widespread incidence in the Romance languages, it has remained poorly studied. In his wide-ranging comparative coverage, Professor Sampson identifies three main categories of vowel prosthesis that have occurred and explores in detail their historical trajectory and the relationship between them. The presentation draws freely throughout on the rich philological materials available from Romance and brings to light various unexpected changes in the productive use of prosthesis through time. For example in French and Italian (which is Tuscan-based), one category of prosthesis became well established in the early Middle Ages only to lose productivity and subsequently become moribund. With its extensive use of empirical data and findings from theoretical linguistics, the book offers a thorough and revealing account of a fascinating chapter in the phonological history of Romance.
Author: Michele Loporcaro Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019965655X Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 327
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This book looks at the changes that took place in vowel length during the development of Latin into the various Romance languages and dialects. It draws on extensive data from a wide range of dialects and presents a new account of these changes, which has implications for a number of issues in Romance historical phonology.
Author: Christoph Gabriel Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110548674 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 735
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This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.
Author: Susann Fischer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110394839 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 755
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Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.
Author: Daniel Recasens Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027270384 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 221
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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.
Author: Mark Gibson Publisher: ISBN: 0198739400 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 512
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This book explores recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology. Topics studied range from the low-level mechanical processes involved in speech production and perception to high-level representation and computation, based on data from across the Romance language family, including from varieties that are less widely studied.
Author: Adam Ledgeway Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108602797 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 1169
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The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.
Author: Roger Wright Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 472
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"This volume celebrates his [Ralph Penney's] retirement in 2005 from the Chair of Spanish Linguistics at Queen Mary and Westfield College [University of London], at the age of 65"--P. 11.
Author: Miriam Bouzouita Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027264317 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 348
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This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the (Ibero-)Romance languages and diverse in terms of the approaches considered, ranging from cognitive-functionalist to generativist to variationist, they combine in this volume to showcase the merits of different, yet complementary, perspectives in understanding linguistic variation and language change. The gamut of phenomena scrutinised varies from morpho-phonological puzzles and word-formation to syntax and interface-related phenomena to, as a coda, methodological suggestions for future research in old Ibero-Romance; thus making it ideal reading for scholars and postgraduate students alike.
Author: Rodney Sampson
Author: Rodney Sampson
Author: Rodney Sampson
Author: Michele Loporcaro
Author: Christoph Gabriel
Author: Susann Fischer
Author: Daniel Recasens
Author: Mark Gibson
Author: Adam Ledgeway
Author: Roger Wright
Author: Miriam Bouzouita