The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin

Cser, András

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“…The forms in (14a) are monosyllables with a long, nasalised vowel that is closed by a single coda consonant -<d ens> was pronounced [ There is consensus in the scholarly literature that <n> in the orthographic sequences <ns> and <nf> represented nasality (cf. Cser 2012). I argue that the <n> after all orthographic nasalconsonant sequences represented nasality when following a long vowel.…”

Section: Extrametricality Licensed Rising Sonoritymentioning

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“…The basic facts regarding the phonotactics of Latin have been discussed, inter alios , by Sommerstein () and, more recently, Cser (). Latin permitted words to have word‐final complex codas, as in (5).…”

Section: The Extrametricality Of Word‐final [S] Throughout Latin Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is consensus in the scholarly literature that <n> in the orthographic sequences <ns> and <nf> represented nasality (cf. Cser ). I argue that the <n> after all orthographic nasal‐consonant sequences represented nasality when following a long vowel.…”

Section: Old Latin Extrametricality After Long Vowelsmentioning

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“…4 The examples m as and s us in (3b) are especially important because they make clear that these alternations are not the result of compensatory lengthening from a lost consonant, which might be argued for with a form like c os < *cots. The basic facts regarding the phonotactics of Latin have been discussed, inter alios, by Sommerstein (1974) and, more recently, Cser (2012). Latin permitted words to have wordfinal complex codas, as in (5).…”

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Extrametricality in Latin

Kostakis

2017

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It is generally claimed that all coda consonants in Latin are moraic and therefore contribute to the weight of a syllable. Contrary to that characterisation, however, I argue that word‐final [s] was always extrametrical – as were all consonants after long vowels. That claim accounts for a number of phonological patterns that are poorly understood. Those patterns range from vowel length alternations in words like sūs ‘swine.nom.sg’ and suis ‘swine.gen.sg’ to underapplied rhotacism in words like opus ‘work’, which resists the analogical shift from [s] to [r] that is found in words like honour (< honōs) ‘honour.nom.sg’. In addition, extrametricality clarifies the idiosyncratic behaviour of word‐final [s] in Old Latin verse, in which the final syllable of a word like minus ‘less’ scans as light more often than it scans as heavy. Extrametrical consonants furthermore exhibit anomalous phonotactic patterns. For example, only word‐final [s] can create a coda with rising sonority. The resulting optimality theoretic analysis advances a detailed account of moraicity in Latin phonology and more generally informs our understanding of complex patterns in moraic structure that fall out from constraint interaction.

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Section: Extrametricality Licensed Rising Sonoritymentioning

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Section: The Extrametricality Of Word‐final [S] Throughout Latin Historymentioning

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Section: Old Latin Extrametricality After Long Vowelsmentioning

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Extrametricality in Latin

Kostakis

2017

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“… The most important of these are presented in Cser (: 57–61). For data and pertaining philological issues see Prinz (; ) and Buck (), but comprehensive historical grammars of the language (e.g.…”

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Prefix Allomorphy and the Phonologisation of s‐Deletion in Latin

Cser

2019

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Latin s‐final prefixes show extensive allomorphy, which can be ascribed to different diachronic processes such as the drive to maintain contrast, analogical attraction and a sound change that deleted s before voiced consonants. We argue that the latter sound change led to three different phonologisation processes due to distributional imbalance in the relevant segments as well as a simultaneous sound change that also affected s. The evidence for the competing phonologisation processes is provided by the different alternations displayed by the s‐final prefixes.

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Speech Errors in the Production of Initial Consonant Clusters: The Roles of Frequency and Sonority

Wulfert

Auer

Hanulíková

2022

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: One of the central questions in speech production research is to what degree certain structures have an inherent difficulty and to what degree repeated encounter and practice make them easier to process. The goal of this article was to determine the extent to which frequency and sonority distance of consonant clusters predict production difficulties. Method: We used a tongue twister paradigm to elicit speech errors on syllable-initial German consonant clusters and investigated the relative influences of cluster frequency and sonority distance between the consonants of a cluster on production accuracy. Native speakers of German produced pairs of monosyllabic pseudowords beginning with consonant clusters at a high speech rate. Results: Error rates decreased with increasing frequency of the consonant clusters. A high sonority distance, on the other hand, did not facilitate a cluster's production, but speech errors led to optimized sonority structure for a subgroup of clusters. In addition, the combination of consonant clusters in a stimulus pair has a great impact on production accuracy. Conclusion: These results suggest that both frequency of use and sonority distance codetermine production ease, as well as syntagmatic competition between adjacent sound sequences.

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The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin

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Extrametricality in Latin

Extrametricality in Latin

Prefix Allomorphy and the Phonologisation of s‐Deletion in Latin

Speech Errors in the Production of Initial Consonant Clusters: The Roles of Frequency and Sonority

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