Phonetically conditioned sound change
Contact induced /u/-fronting in Zuberoan Basque
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ander Egurtzegi (0000-0002-3451-323X, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-367 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.34.3.02egu |
| OpenAlex | W2731617487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
All modern Basque dialects have at least 5 contrastive vowels /i, e, a, o, u/. One Basque dialect, Zuberoan, has developed a contrastive sixth vowel, the front rounded high vowel /y/. This development is arguably due to sustained contact with neighboring Gallo-Romance languages. This paper supports empirically the historical development of the /u/ vs. /y/ contrast and provides a detailed analysis of the contexts that inhibited the /u/ > /y/ sound change. Fronting was inhibited when the vowel was followed by an apical sibilant, a tap /ɾ/ or an rT cluster (where r is a rhotic, and T an alveolar obstruent), arguably due to coarticulatory effects. Fronting occurred when /s̻/, /r/ or non-coronal rhotic-obstruent clusters followed /u/. Zuberoan /u/-fronting illustrates the importance of language contact and phonetics in the phonological analysis of historical developments
Historical linguistics · Language change · Linguistics · Obstruent · Phonetics · Phonology · Sound change · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
The Atlas of North American English
Evolutionary Phonology
New Zealand English
Human adults and human infants show a “perceptual magnet effect” for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not
Exemplar dynamics
Interaction between duration, context, and speaking style in English stressed vowels
Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in standard southern British
Coarticulation in VCV Utterances
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology
The relationship between coronal place and vowel backness
Diachronic effects of rhinoglottophilia, symmetries in sound change, and the curious case of Basque
The History of Basque
Getting fed up with our feet
The fronting of the back upgliding vowels in Charleston, South Carolina
On the phonemic status of nasalized /h̃/ in Modern Zuberoan Basque
Coordination and Coarticulation in Speech Production
Patterns of /Uw/, /Ʊ/, and /Ow Fronting in Reno, Nevada
The physiological, acoustic, and perceptual basis of high back vowel fronting
Language-specific patterns of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation
Changes in the vowels of received pronunciation
Parsing coarticulated speech in perception
Coarticulation, assimilation and blending in Catalan consonant clusters
U/-Fronting and Agent-Based Modeling
Principles of Linguistic Change
Formant frequencies of RP monophthongs in four age groups of speakers
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |