Vowel deletion before sibilant-stop clusters in Latin: issues of syllabification, lexicon and diachrony.

Autor: Machajdíková, Barbora, Buzássyová, Ľudmila Eliášová
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Zdroj: Journal of Latin Linguistics; Oct2021, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p191-237, 47p
Abstrakt: As pointed out by [113], the fact that syncope occurred in non-initial syllables supports the hypothesis that I initial i syllables of Latin words were consistently stressed in the history of archaic Latin (6th-5th centuries). An "easy" solution would be to formulate the rule for Latin syncope in a negative way as follows: "the syncope of an unstressed short vowel in Latin (and Sabellic) did not take place in a closed syllable I except if i the closing consonant was I s i (or its allophone I z i ): [V SB 1 sb .CV SB 2 sb ], [V SB 1 sb s.C(R)V SB 2 sb ]". Keywords: extrasyllabic /s/; historical phonology; Oscan; sibilants; syllable; syncope; Umbrian; vowel deletion EN extrasyllabic /s/ historical phonology Oscan sibilants syllable syncope Umbrian vowel deletion 191 237 47 01/27/22 20211001 NES 211001 1 Introduction It is generally assumed that syncope in Republican Latin took place only in open syllables. Instead of assuming that "short vowel syncope in Latin words occurred only in open syllables", one could claim that "the syncope of an unstressed short vowel in Latin (and Sabellic) did not take place in a closed syllable except if the closing consonant was s (and perhaps its allophone z)". The [au] of Lat. I audio i is diachronically ambiguous: Lat. * I awis i may reflect not only * I h i SB I 2 i sb I ew-is i or * I h i SB I 1 i sb I aw-is i , but also * I owis i < * I h i SB I 2 i sb I ow-is i or * I h i SB I 1 i sb I ow-is i according to the evolution of an originally unstressed * I ow i to I aw i before a vowel (Lat. I cauere i < * I kow(h i SB I 1 i sb I )-éye i - related to Gr. ; Umbrian imperative I sauitu i "wound!". [Extracted from the article]
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