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Vowel Length From Latin to Romance (Hardcover)
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Vowel Length From Latin to Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 10
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This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length
during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and
dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball'
vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance
language has retained that same contrast. However, many
non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early
20th century) have developed novel vowel length contrasts, which
are investigated in detail here. Unlike previous studies of this
phenomenon, this book combines detailed historical evidence
spanning three millennia (as attested by extant texts) with
extensive data from present-day Romance varieties collected from
first-hand fieldwork, which are subjected to both phonological and
experimental phonetic analysis. Professor Loporcaro puts forward a
detailed account of the loss of contrastive vowel length in late
Latin, showing that this happened through the establishment of a
process which lengthened all stressed vowels in open syllables, as
in modern Italian casa ['ka:sa]. His analysis has implications for
many of the most widely-debated issues relating to the origin of
novel vowel length contrasts in Romance, which are also shown to
have been preserved to different degrees in different areas. The
detailed investigation of the rise and fall of vowel length in
dozens of lesser-known (non-standard) varieties is crucial in
understanding the development of this aspect of Romance historical
phonology, and will be of interest not only to researchers and
students in comparative Romance linguistics, but also, more
generally, to phonologists and those interested in historical
linguistics beyond the Latin-Romance language family.
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