Y a-t-il des métaphonies ouvrantes en roman?

Carvalho, Joaquim Brandão De; Russo, Michela

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“…This also explains why, as observed by Carvalho & Russo (2007), generally there are no lowering metaphonies. Metaphony may consist of element diffusion but it is tentatively claimed that the essence of the process consists in A demotion.…”

Section: Regressive Metaphony: Diachrony Open Questions and Tentativsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…This way the element I never acquires headship since the output segment in the metaphonic process has the same underlying representation of the output, as far as the quality is concerned, that of a lax unheaded vowel, as illustrated in (24): (24) CVCVCVC V kʊ ɪ ʧ i < kʊ ʧ ɪ n ae < COQUINARE 'to cook' I n Not only does this proposal account for the tense outcome using Backley's element system but it allows in addition to draw a connection between the synchronic length of the vowels that undergo the metaphonic process, spelled out as tenseness, and A demotion, in a perspective where A has been argued to be structurally, more than elemental (Pöchtrager 2006;Carvalho & Russo 2007;Pöechtrager & Kaye 2010). Their length, however, is phonetically expressed through tenseness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Progressive metaphony in the Abruzzese dialect of Teramo

Passino¹

2016

Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy

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This contribution deals with metaphony, an assimilatory process that has targeted stressed vowels in the evolution from Latin to Romance, particularly widespread in Italo-Romance. First, progressive metaphony is tackled, an understudied type of metaphony that concerns only restricted areas of the Italian peninsula located in the Abruzzi and Molise. A description of the process and a reconstruction of the vowel-system of the dialect that best instantiates this phenomenon are provided, followed by a formal account. Both feature-based and element-based analyses are presented, discussed and compared. Then, the inferences from the analysis of progressive metaphony are tested on data concerning regressive metaphony. Finally, the hints gathered from these analyses are exploited to advance an alternative, tentative proposal on the general workings of the metaphonic process, where the element A and the notion of head have a key role. This proposition helps answering some questions that are left open when metaphony is looked at through the usual perspective, and suggests some new paths of research.

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Section: Regressive Metaphony: Diachrony Open Questions and Tentativsupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Element-based Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%