Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters
This diachronic constraint-based analysis details shifting reflexes in Proto-French (PF) and early Old French (OF) (approximately 2nd-12th centuries) towards the repair of underlying obstruent-nasal clusters, especially where the obstruent is coronal, as well as phonotactically dispreferred /tl, dl...
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This diachronic constraint-based analysis details shifting reflexes in Proto-French (PF) and early Old French (OF) (approximately 2nd-12th centuries) towards the repair of underlying obstruent-nasal clusters, especially where the obstruent is coronal, as well as phonotactically dispreferred /tl, dl/. In earlier PF, deletion and gemination prevail, with gemination broadening scope from flat-sonority clusters to some obstruent-sonorant clusters, including /dl/ and variably obstruent-nasal. Late PF /dn/ assibilates to [zn], avoiding a suboptimal syllable-contact sonority contour, with the end result of both processes finalizing a broader coda obstruent ban before OF. Early OF ecclesiastic loanwords from Latin re-introduce underlying medial obstruent-nasal and /tl, dl/ clusters, with the cluster-final sonorant undergoing the novel repair of rhotacization (/n/ or /l/ " [r]), representing an extension of manner change seen in earlier spirantization and assibilation in the native lexicon. The unified optimality-theoretic analysis identifies and argues for a multi-stage shift in the prioritization of constraints governing the intersecting deletion, gemination, spirantization, assibilation, and rhotacization processes, and their interaction with syllabification, sonority, and phonotactics.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7360904f876043a7a7eb54e42be7bdc22023-11-26T13:37:23ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIsogloss2385-41382023-11-019110.5565/rev/isogloss.268Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clustersFrancisco Antonio Montaño0Lehman College, City University of New York This diachronic constraint-based analysis details shifting reflexes in Proto-French (PF) and early Old French (OF) (approximately 2nd-12th centuries) towards the repair of underlying obstruent-nasal clusters, especially where the obstruent is coronal, as well as phonotactically dispreferred /tl, dl/. In earlier PF, deletion and gemination prevail, with gemination broadening scope from flat-sonority clusters to some obstruent-sonorant clusters, including /dl/ and variably obstruent-nasal. Late PF /dn/ assibilates to [zn], avoiding a suboptimal syllable-contact sonority contour, with the end result of both processes finalizing a broader coda obstruent ban before OF. Early OF ecclesiastic loanwords from Latin re-introduce underlying medial obstruent-nasal and /tl, dl/ clusters, with the cluster-final sonorant undergoing the novel repair of rhotacization (/n/ or /l/ " [r]), representing an extension of manner change seen in earlier spirantization and assibilation in the native lexicon. The unified optimality-theoretic analysis identifies and argues for a multi-stage shift in the prioritization of constraints governing the intersecting deletion, gemination, spirantization, assibilation, and rhotacization processes, and their interaction with syllabification, sonority, and phonotactics. https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/268Old FrenchProto-Frenchhistorical phonologyconsonant clusterssyllable contactloan phonology |
| spellingShingle | Francisco Antonio Montaño Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters Isogloss Old French Proto-French historical phonology consonant clusters syllable contact loan phonology |
| title | Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters |
| title_full | Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters |
| title_fullStr | Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters |
| title_short | Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters |
| title_sort | manner change in early french unharmonic obstruent sonorant clusters |
| topic | Old French Proto-French historical phonology consonant clusters syllable contact loan phonology |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/268 |
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