Loss and restoration of word final vowels in Spanish

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, James M
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-13T20:17:58Z
dc.date.available2016-06-13T20:17:58Z
dc.date.issued1979-05
dc.description.abstractThe process of apocope in Medieval Spanish offers a glimpse into the interaction of structural and sociological constraints on linguistic behavior. Of the word final unstressed vowels /e/, /o/ and /a/, the twelfth and thirteenth century Spanish /e/, and less often /o/ were effaced exposing new consonants and consonant clusters. Written documentation of the period clearly indicates the loss of the vowel in environments where Modern Spanish has sustained the loss and in others where it has not, cf. Latin panem > Old Spanish pan, Modern Spanish pan. and Latin noctem > Old Spanish noch (in texts), Modern Spanish noche. By the fifteenth century, apocoped vowels were restored except after dental consonants, i.e., /l, r, s, n, ć (>θ), d/. The loss and subsequent restoration of these vowels appears to reflect syntagmatic, sociological and paradigmatic aspects of language function. To what extent can these factors be isolated, and their relative influence examined?en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationAnderson, J. M. (1979). Loss and restoration of word final vowels in Spanish. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(Spring), 19-24.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29009
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51282
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectHistorical linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectSpanish languageen_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.titleLoss and restoration of word final vowels in Spanishen_US
dc.typejournal article
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