Locality domains on Lenition. Spirantization (Gorgia) and Voicing in Tuscan dialects1

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ID21488043
AuthorsMichela Russo (0000-0002-5874-6441, Université Paris Nanterre, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume84
Issue84
Publication date2022-07-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinx (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0246-8743 • E-ISSN: 2118-9692
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/linx.9107
OpenAlexW4312661475
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited37

This article investigates the diachronic and synchronic relation between Tuscan lenition (Voicing) and spirantization (Gorgia) of voiceless Latin stops, both processes are postvocalic/lenition processes. Firstly, we set out to examine the conditions peculiar to Romance lenition (Voicing) of Latin voiceless stops from Medieval Tuscan to modern dialects. Secondly, Tuscan lenition/Voicing is compared to the local later Florentine–Senese spirantization/aspiration. Lenition is variously intertwined with the Tuscan Gorgia/spirantization. Both are positional phenomena in relation to fortition / lenition segmental scales, positional and prosodic parameters, melodic factors within words and across word boundaries. The article provides a structural description of the strong/weak consonants and their relations to the more complex objects in which they are integrated (the syllable and the foot), in order to state locality conditions/domain on lenition and locality in phonology

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Locality · Melody · Phonology · Syllable · Voice · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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