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Article: On palatalization and the origin of yod in Western Romance.(Report)
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- Romance Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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With respect to the palatalization of /ks/, /kt/, /k'l/, /g'l/, and /gn/ in Western Romance, the yod-based approach posits the weakening of the syllable-final velar to yod--a palatal semivowel or offglide--followed by palatalization of the dentalveolar consonant. (1) According to this view, all cases of palatalization are attributed to the effects of the preceding yod; for those instances in which no yod survives, absorption by the following palatal consonant is postulated. In contrast, a consonant-based approach postulates some type of assimilation between the velar and dentalveolar consonants whose outcome was a palatoalveolar or alveolopalatal consonant; any Western ...
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