Phonetic Causes of Sound Change
The Palatalization and Assibilation of Obstruents
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; 42;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 August 2020
- ISBN 9780198845010
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x163x19 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 47
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Short description:
This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization, assibilation, and affrication. It draws on a variety of historical, dialectological, and phonetic data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic.
MoreLong description:
This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies have been concerned with the typology of sound inventories and of the processes of palatalization and assibilation, this volume not only deals with the typological patterns but also outlines the articulatory and acoustic causes of these sound changes.
In his articulation-based account, Daniel Recasens argues that the affricate and fricative outcomes of these changes developed via an intermediate stage, namely an (alveolo)palatal stop with varying degrees of closure fronting. Particular emphasis is placed on the one-to-many relationship between the input and output consonant realizations, on the acoustic cues that contribute to the implementation of these sound changes, and on the contextual, positional, and prosodic conditions that most favour their development. The analysis is based on extensive data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic, and draws on a variety of sources, such as linguistic atlases, articulatory and acoustic studies, and phoneme identification tests.
This monograph investigates the phonetic factors driving sound change, focusing on the palatalization and assibilation of velar stops (velar softening) and the softening of labial stops and labiodental fricatives (labial softening). The study covers Romance dialects, Slavic languages, Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and Bantu languages, offering new insights into diachronic processes. It examines how articulatory and acoustic factors shape sound changes, emphasizing how vocal tract configurations influence sound transitions.
Table of Contents:
Series preface
Preface
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Velar softening
Velar palatalization
Velar assibilation
Labial softening
Conclusions
References
Index of language families, languages, and dialects
General index
