From hiatus to diphthong: the evolution of vowel sequences in Romance

Romance languages show hiatus and diphthongal realisations of inherited iV sequences of rising sonority (e.g. ia). We study five Romance varieties with different degrees of contrast between the two realisation types: Romanian, with a diphthong–hiatus contrast, Spanish, with a weaker contrast, French...

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Published in:	Phonology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 37 - 75
Main Authors:	Chitoran, Ioana, Hualde, José Ignacio
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2007 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subjects:	Cognitive science Diphthongs Intuition Language Lexical stress Linguistics Phonetics Phonology Sound change Syllables Vowels Words diphthong Romance languages phonology hiatus
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