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. Ranjan Sen considers examines clear and dark
/l/; inverse compensatory lengthening; syllabification before stop
+ liquid in vowel reduction; vocalic epenthesis in stop + /l/; and
consonantal assimilations. He ascertains the phonological
conditions for each phenomenon, reconstructs the motivations for
the changes, and develops a methodology for the appropriate use of
evidence from non-current languages to evaluate theories of
diachronic phonology. He evaluates the likely phonetic and
phonological influences by investigating studies across languages,
establishing a secure evidence base through detailed philological
examination, and reconstructing the phonetics - through both
general principles and pertinent experimental studies - and the
relevant phonological structure of the language. The book will
appeal to graduate students and researchers in historical
linguistics, phonology, Classical philology, and Indo-European
linguistics.
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