the paper deals with the neutralization of prosodic feature [±long] in spoken Latin stressed syllables. The testimonia of ancient grammarians hint at a new solution concerning the so-called Romance quantity.This work is a first attempt to demonstrate that the first outcome of the collapse of vowel quantity in spoken Latin was a neutralization, which surfaced as a general lengthening of stressed vowels, both in heavy and light syllables
Agostino, i grammatici e il vocalismo del latino d'Africa / Mancini, Marco. - In: RIVISTA DI LINGUISTICA. - ISSN 1120-2726. - 13:(2001), pp. 309-338.
Agostino, i grammatici e il vocalismo del latino d'Africa
MANCINI, MARCO
2001
Abstract
the paper deals with the neutralization of prosodic feature [±long] in spoken Latin stressed syllables. The testimonia of ancient grammarians hint at a new solution concerning the so-called Romance quantity.This work is a first attempt to demonstrate that the first outcome of the collapse of vowel quantity in spoken Latin was a neutralization, which surfaced as a general lengthening of stressed vowels, both in heavy and light syllablesFile allegati a questo prodotto
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