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Competing analyses of the Vulgar Latin vowel system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Douglas C. Walker
Douglas C. Walker*
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University of Ottawa
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The ways in which the vowel system of Vulgar Latin (VL) differs from that of Classical Latin (CL) have been well documented. These differences arise from historical innovations including:

  • (1) the monophthongization of the diphthongs [oj] œ and [aj] œ to [ē] and respectively,

  • (2) the lowering of the short vowels to respectively, and the consequent introduction of a new phonemic degree of vowel height for the front unrounded and back rounded vowels,

  • (3) the neutralization of the phonemic CL length differences, all stressed vowels now being long whatever the length of their CL source, and all unstressed vowels being short, and

  • (4) the introduction of phonemic stress, since the position of stress is no longer synchronically predictable because of the neutralization of vowel length mentioned in (3).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Spring 1975 , pp. 1 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1975

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