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A Nonlinear Analysis of the Evolution of Consonant + Yod Sequences in Gallo-Romance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Haike Jacobs
Haike Jacobs*
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University of Nijmegen
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In Late Latin the consonantalization of unstressed nonlow front vowels in hiatus gave rise to consonant + yod sequences. These clusters, which were absent in Classical Latin, became subject to a number of phonological processes as diverse as palatalization, affrication, gemination, palatal diphthongization and lenition. Some of these changes occurred in all dialects, others were limited to a number of them. The primary aim of this study is to provide a detailed nonlinear analysis of the above-mentioned processes, which, although well-documented in philological studies, have never received a proper formal treatment.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 27 - 64
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1991

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