360 Sound Change Instructor: Michela Russo Tuesday/Friday: 1:05-2:30 PM
1. Latin as a source for the Romance languages: - Syllables and word stress in classical and vulgar Latin: Quantity-sensitive stress (Metrical, moraïc and template-based approaches) - Stressed vowels and Latin diphthongs - Vowels and Consonants (An approach in Elements Theory) The Phonology of Late Latin: - Special developments in stressed vowels: Stress and hiatus 2. The transition from Latin to the Romance languages: - Latin length neutralisation in Early Romance - Changes in the vowel system from Latin to Romance - Vowel systems: A phonological Elements account - The earliest Romance texts: Orthography and Phonology - Prosody and syllable structure in Romance - Diphthongization (as alinear syntax chains) Computation of diphthongs in a Word-Syntax account - Palatalization: An Elementary account. - Sandhi phenomena 3. Early Latin changes in syllable structure and consonants: - Early consonant losses - Consonantal sandhi and early Raddoppiamento Sintattico in the Latin regions (epigraphic and medieval Latin) Template-based accounts and Word-Syntax account - Prosthetic vowels and syncope - Carolingian language as source for the Gallo-Romance language. Phonological interpretation of orthography 4. Latin and Romance in the medieval period: - Early Latin changes in syllable structure and consonants: - Merger of /b/ and /w/ in Late Latin - Degemination - Phonological lenition Phonological computation, representation and melodic content 5. Metaphony and Vowel Harmony in Romance. Theoretical issues: -Stress dependent Harmony -Diachrony and Synchrony -Raising and Lowering Metaphonies in Romance -Phonological opacity -An Elements account -Morphosyntax-phonology interface -Non-concatenative Morphology – a new account for Italo-Romance Metaphony
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6. Fortition in Romance: Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italo-Romance from medieval to modern Italian - Raddoppiamento Sintattico licenced by Syntax - Raddoppiamento Sintattico licenced by Stress - Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Early medieval Gallo-Romance Strong position, melodic strength effects and strength mechanisms Representational and computational processes. Positional factors 7. Fortition and phonotactic in Southern and Western Romance: - From the Merger of /b/ and /w/ in Late Latin to the betacism Ibero-Romance, Occitan, Gascon languages - Restructuring the Latin merger of /b/ and /w/ in Southern Italo-Romance languages Process inhibition, segmental structure, environments and positional strength 8. Consonantal Liaison: From Late Latin to Gallo-Romance - Liaison licenced by Syntax - Morphological liaison Templatic and computational approaches -A Word-Syntax account -Recursion in Phonology?
Evaluation: students will be asked to respond to seven major questions specific to course content.
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