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This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies have been concerned with the typology of sound inventories and of the processes of palatalization and assibilation, this volume not only deals with the typological patterns but also outlines thearticulatory and acoustic causes of these sound changes.In his articulation-based account, Daniel Recasens argues that the affricate and fricative outcomes of these changes developed via an intermediate stage, namely an (alveolo)palatal stop with varying degrees of closure fronting. Particular emphasis is placed on the one-to-many relationship between the input and output consonant realizations, on the acoustic cues that contribute to the implementation of these sound changes, and on the contextual, positional, and prosodic conditions that mostfavour their development. The analysis is based on extensive data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic, and draws on a variety of sources, such as linguistic atlases, articulatory and acoustic studies, and phoneme identification tests.

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Chinese language --- Russian language --- Palatalization.

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En esta monografía se mantiene que los estudios previos de la palatalización de /s/ en iberorromance están basados en teorías inadecuadas del cambio fonético. Frente a aquellos estudios, se afirma que los avances más recientes en lingüística histórica nos permiten interpretar los datos de la palatalización de /s/ en términos más precisos, y explicar el por qué de su manifestación esporádica. El marco teórico propuesto está elaborado a partir de los descubrimientos de la fonética moderna, la lingüística sociohistórica y la teoría de la difusión léxica. Este amplio marco teórico se basa principalmente en la idea de que el cambio fonético debe ser estudiado en tres dimensiones relativamente independientes: fonética, sociohistórica y léxica. En primer lugar, se aduce que la recategorización mental de las realizaciones de /s/ y /s/ es no sólo posible sino frecuente debido a su semejanza acústica y articulatoria. Se argumenta también que la palatalización de /s/ era una variable sociolingüística en iberorromance cuya propagación se vio truncada hacia el siglo diecisiete. Por último, se sugiere que, tal como predice la hipótesis sobre la difusión léxica de los cambios, esta variable tendía a afectar en diferente medida a diferentes unidades léxicas.

Spanish language --- Phonetics --- Historical linguistics --- Espagnol (Langue) --- Orthography and spelling --- Palatalization --- Orthographe --- Palatalisation --- Palatalization. --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Spanish language - To 1500 - Palatalization. --- ESPAGNOL (LANGUE) ANCIEN --- ECHANGE S/X

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This book presents a formal, constraint-based account of the main diachronic and synchronic patterns of variation in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology more broadly.

Romance languages --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Phonology, Historical --- Palatalization --- Phonetics --- Phonétique historique --- Langues romanes --- Palatales (phonétique)

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The question of how to classify the different varieties of spoken Arabic is a long-standing problem in the fields of Arabic and Semitic linguistics, and it has been addressed by several authors and from a number of different perspectives. This collection of articles represents a further contribution to the vast collective effort of attempting to more effectively assess, organize, and understand the varieties of spoken Arabic, applying a classification of Arabic dialects in the broadest possible sense. The authors who contribute to this volume tackle this issue by examining varieties spoken from the Maghreb to the Mashreq and employing various approaches and perspectives, e.g., diatopic and diachronic, syntactical, and typological.

Language --- dialect classification --- subgrouping --- Sudanic Arabic --- Egyptian Arabic --- definiteness --- indefiniteness --- specificity --- referentiality --- determination --- article systems --- phonological typology --- feature geometry --- contrastivity --- Arabic dialects --- consonant reflexes --- Mahdia Arabic --- Maghribi Arabic --- Tunisia --- Sahel --- urban dialects --- Bedouin dialects --- villageois dialects --- Arabic dialectology --- Sociolinguistics --- Arabic --- Baggara --- comparative dialectology --- historical dialectology --- historical linguistics --- dialectology --- nomadism --- methodology --- geography --- dialect geography --- Arabic epigraphy --- Tunisian Arabic --- Libyan Arabic --- copulas --- syntactic isoglosses --- cognate infinitive --- Lebanese Arabic --- typology --- Semitic languages --- palatalization --- nasal --- Cairene Arabic --- sociophonetics --- acoustic phonetics --- Moroccan Arabic --- Essaouira --- Tafilalt --- southern Morocco --- dialect contact --- urban --- rural --- gələt --- qəltu --- spoken Arabic --- classification --- Bedouin Arabic --- Jordan --- Masāʿīd --- spoken Arabic varieties --- Jordanian Arabic --- Arabic linguistics --- n/a --- Masāʿīd