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Syllable and Segment in Latin offers new and detailed analyses of five long-standing problems in Latin historical phonology. In so doing, it clarifies the relative roles of synchronic phonological structure and phonetics in guiding sound change. While the phenomena can predominantly be explained by...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, N.Y. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ;
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=2aebc3487e3e4254afceaf0d0bfb178f |
| Summary: |
Syllable and Segment in Latin offers new and detailed analyses of five long-standing problems in Latin historical phonology. In so doing, it clarifies the relative roles of synchronic phonological structure and phonetics in guiding sound change. While the phenomena can predominantly be explained by a reductionist view of diachronic phonology, claiming that demands of speech production and perception alone motivate and constrain historical development, the author shows that synchronic structure played the pivotal role of governing significant (but not immediately apparent) categorical and gradient surface variants, and that some phonetically explicable developments were in fact initiated and constrained by structural analogy. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191635595 |
| CLC: | H771.1 |