Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Description

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology. Manuals of Romance Linguistics Acknowledgments Table of contents List of abbreviations Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction I. Key topics in Romance phonology 1 Length and weight in Romance 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification 3 Processes affecting vowels 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa 5 Palatalization in Romance 6 Nasals and nasalization 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages 9 Intonation 10 Corpus phonology 11 Sociophonetics 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties 16 Loanword phonology in Romance II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages 17 Romanian 18 Italian 19 Sardinian 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh 21 French 22 Occitan 23 Catalan 24 Spanish 25 Judeo-Spanish 26 Portuguese 27 Galician 28 Romance-lexifier creoles List of contributors Index