Juncture and Syllable Division in Latin

There have been a number of successful attempts, such as Kent's, to explain variations in scansion or in the development of Vulgar Latin forms in terms of variations in syllable division. It is also rather commonly accepted that Latin had some means of marking word boundaries—that is to say, had a juncture phoneme. There has not been (to my knowledge at least) any attempt to put syllable division and juncture together in a systematic fashion, to see what each can tell us about the other and what both can tell us about the phonemic structure of the language. Such a synthesis is the task here attempted. It is the contention of this paper that when the two are put together, three situation types emerge: normal syllable division, normal syllable division accompanied by juncture, and syllable division of a type that requires juncture

Arithmetic · Division (mathematics) · Juncture · Linguistics · Syllable · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies