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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.: Vowel Length from Latin to Romance by Michele Loporcaro (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10019965655X
ISBN-139780199656554
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038263748
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameVowel Length from Latin to Romance
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRomance Languages (Other), Linguistics / General
Publication Year2015
TypeLanguage Course
AuthorMichele Loporcaro
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesOxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight23.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-956954
ReviewsLoporcaro's book is a complete picture of the story of Romance vowel length on histotical, geographic and typologocal grounds, "Loporcaro's book is a complete picture of the story of Romance vowel length on historical, geographic and typological grounds"--John M. Ryan, Diachronica"[M]ost definitely should be read by anyone interested in Romance and Latin phonology. All in all, the sightseeing tour provides lots of empirical data, often new, and is extremely enjoyable, whether or not the reader shares the theoretical approach of the tour guide." --Heike Jacobs, Phonology, "Loporcaro's book is a complete picture of the story of Romance vowel length on historical, geographic and typological grounds"--John M. Ryan, Diachronica, "Loporcaro's book is a complete picture of the story of Romance vowel length on historical, geographic and typological grounds"--John M. Ryan, Diachronica "[M]ost definitely should be read by anyone interested in Romance and Latin phonology. All in all, the sightseeing tour provides lots of empirical data, often new, and is extremely enjoyable, whether or not the reader shares the theoretical approach of the tour guide." --Heike Jacobs, Phonology
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal440/.0415
Table Of Content1. Introduction2. Vowel length in the Latin-Romance transition3. The development of VL in Romance4. The analysis of Northern Romance vowel length5. Dialect variation and comparative reconstruction6. In lieu of a conclusionAppendix: Language and dialect area maps
SynopsisThis book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has retained that same contrast. However, many non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early 20th century) have developed novel vowel length contrasts, which are investigated in detail here.Unlike previous studies of this phenomenon, this book combines detailed historical evidence spanning three millennia (as attested by extant texts) with extensive data from present-day Romance varieties collected from first-hand fieldwork, which are subjected to both phonological and experimental phonetic analysis. Professor Loporcaro puts forward a detailed account of the loss of contrastive vowel length in late Latin, showing that this happened through the establishment of a process which lengthened all stressed vowels in open syllables, as in modern Italian casa ['ka:sa]. His analysis has implications for many of the most widely-debated issues relating to the origin of novel vowel length contrasts in Romance, which are also shown to have been preserved to different degrees in different areas. The detailed investigation of the rise and fall of vowel length in dozens of lesser-known (non-standard) varieties is crucial in understanding the development of this aspect of Romance historical phonology, and will be of interest not only to researchers and students in comparative Romance linguistics, but also, more generally, to phonologists and those interested in historical linguistics beyond the Latin-Romance language family., This book looks at the changes that took place in vowel length during the development of Latin into the various Romance languages and dialects. It draws on extensive data from a wide range of dialects and presents a new account of these changes, which has implications for a number of issues in Romance historical phonology., This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila "ball" vs. pila "pile", like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has retained that same contrast. However, many non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early 20th century) have developed novel vowel length contrasts, which are investigated in detail here.Unlike previous studies of this phenomenon, this book combines detailed historical evidence spanning three millennia (as attested by extant texts) with extensive data from present-day Romance varieties collected from first-hand fieldwork, which are subjected to both phonological and experimental phonetic analysis. Professor Loporcaro puts forward a detailed account of the loss of contrastive vowel length in late Latin, showing that this happened through the establishment of a process which lengthened all stressed vowels in open syllables, as in modern Italian casa ['ka:sa]. His analysis has implications for many of the most widely-debated issues relating to the origin of novel vowel length contrasts in Romance, which are also shown to have been preserved to different degrees in different areas. The detailed investigation of the rise and fall of vowel length in dozens of lesser-known (non-standard) varieties is crucial in understanding the development of this aspect of Romance historical phonology, and will be of interest not only to researchers and students in comparative Romance linguistics, but also, more generally, to phonologists and those interested in historical linguistics beyond the Latin-Romance language family., This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has retained that same contrast. However, many non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early 20th century) have developed novel vowel length contrasts, which are investigated in detail here.
LC Classification NumberPC91
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