Production and Perception Mechanisms of Sound Change
Daniel Recasens & Fernando Sánchez-Miret (eds.)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Institut d’Estudis Catalans; Universidad de Salamanca
This volume brings together thirteen papers on sound change dealing mostly with Romance in general, several Romance languages in particular (French, Italian, Rhaetoromance, Romanian, Spanish) and a few non-Romance languages as well (Basque, K’ichee’). Most papers are about the articulatory and acoustic causes of sound change and how spatiotemporal variation in production affects the perceptual identification of phonetic segments. Other relevant research topics are the relationship between phonetics and phonology and the influence of the speakers’ age and provenance and of word frequency on the speed at which sound changes take place. The contributions of this volume report acoustic and/or articulatory data in support of particular explanatory interpretations which may inspire future work on diachronic phonology.
Table of contents:
Foreword
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
French
RODNEY SAMPSON
Innovation without change: on a recent phonetic development in Parisian French
Italian
GIOVANNI ABETE
On a dynamic threshold for the perception of diphthongization
SILVIA CALAMAI / CHIARA CELATA
Velar nasals in sound change. On the phonetic origin of Florentine anaphonesis
STEFANO CANALIS
Irregular open syllable diphthongization in Old Tuscan
MICHELE LOPORCARO
On the subordinate status of the choice between
formal and substantive explanation for sound change
Rhaeto-Romance
STEPHAN SCHMID
Palatal and postalveolar obstruents in six Italo- and Rhaeto-Romance varieties:
phonemic merger or retention?
Romania
DANIEL RECASENS
Some controversial issues about the inception of velar softening
Romanian
IOANA CHITORAN / IOANA VASILESCU / BIANCA VIERU / LORI LAMEL
Connected speech in Romanian: Exploring sound change through an ASR system
Spanish
ANA ESTRADA
Factors involved in the evolution of intervocalic /d/ in the Iberian Peninsula:
The case for frequency
JOHN M. RYAN
The dual anomalous trajectories of the Latin sequence -MIN- into Spanish:
An analysis involving both full syncope and weakening
NON-ROMANCE LANGUAGES
ANDER EGURTZEGI
Nasalized mid back vowel raising in Gascon and Basque
OROITZ JAUREGI / IRANTZU EPELDE
Pérdida de la aspiración en euskera .
BRANDON O. BAIRD
Dialectal evolution of the vowel systems of K’ichee’
ISBN 9783862888603 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 60. 224pp. 2018.
