Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780198807384
UPC: 9780198807384
ISBN: 9780198807384
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Item Length: 23.6 cm
Item Height: 241 mm
Item Width: 161 mm
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Author: Andre Zampaulo
Publication Name: Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Engineering & Technology
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 550 g
Number of Pages: 250 Pages
