Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

di André Zampaulo (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2019

This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. André Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources, but also from a range of current phonetic, phonological, and dialectal studies to motivate a formal, constraint-based account of palatal sound change. The analysis takes into account the role of phonetic information in the shaping of phonological patterns, approaching sound change from its inception during the speaker-listener interaction and formalizing it as the difference in constraint ranking between the grammar of the speaker and that of the listener-turned-speaker. The volume offers insights into how and why similar types of change may take place in different varieties and/or the same language at different times, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology more broadly.

• Autore: André Zampaulo
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 250 p.
• Dimensioni: 241 x 161 mm
• Peso: 550 gr.
• EAN: 9780198807384

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