Palatalization In The Romance Languages
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Palatalization In The Romance Languages
Palatalization (sound change), Palatalization in the Romance languages encompasses various historical sound changes which caused consonants to develop a Palatal consonant, palatal articulation or secondary articulation, as well as certain further developments such as Affricate#Affrication, affrication. It resulted in the creation of several consonants that had not existed in Latin phonology and orthography#Consonants, Classical Latin, such as the Italian phonology#Consonants, Italian . Certain types of palatalization affected all Romance languages, and were in some cases discernible in Late Latin, while others affected only a subset of languages and are only known from later evidence. Palatalization was not a single event but rather occurred multiple times in the development of Romance, in different places and in different ways. Definition Palatalization strictly speaking refers either to a change in a consonant's place of articulation, such as when the Voiced dental, alveolar an ...
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Palatalization (sound Change)
Palatalization ( ) is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation of a consonant or, in certain cases, a front vowel. Palatalization involves change in the place or manner of articulation of consonants, or the fronting or raising of vowels. In some cases, palatalization involves assimilation or lenition. Types Palatalization is sometimes an example of assimilation. In some cases, it is triggered by a palatal or palatalized consonant or front vowel, but in other cases, it is not conditioned in any way. Consonant Palatalization changes place of articulation or manner of articulation of consonants. It may add palatal secondary articulation or change primary articulation from velar to palatal or alveolar, alveolar to postalveolar. It may also cause a consonant to change its manner of articulation from stop to affricate or fricative. The change in the manner of articulation is a form of lenition. However, the lenition is frequently ...
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