6. Diachronic prosody

Lahiri, Aditi; Riad, Tomas; Jacobs, H.M.G.M.

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“…Sen (2015a) provides an example of a reconstructed life cycle within the (early) history of Latin, analyzing (in Stratal OT) the stages of "iambic shortening", a phenomenon itself with a long history in the phonological literature (e.g. Mester 1994, Lahiri, Riad and Jacobs 1999, Jacobs 2003, Prince and Smolensky 2004. Certain sequences of "light syllable + heavy syllable" were treated as "light + light" in early Latin, e.g.…”

Section: Unidirectionalitymentioning

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Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research

Sen

2016

Papers in Historical Phonology

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The life cycle of phonological processes (e.g. Bermúdez--Otero 2015) provides an account of how a sound change might develop over the history of a language, from its beginnings in the pressures of speaking and hearing, through its progress to a cognitively--controlled process and maturation into a categorical phenomenon, to its final resting--place as a lexical or morphological pattern. It has been the subject of increased research in recent times, but has faced strikingly few challenges to its diachronic aspects, notably its predictions of unidirectionality and cycle--based dialectal splits. Furthermore, the cognitive mechanisms rooted in morpheme--based learning which are required to predict domain narrowing (phrase > word > stem) rather than broadening need to be tested through child (and adult) acquisition studies. This paper examines how a historical phonologist might go about interrogating the life--cycle model using extensive historical data spanning several centuries, and methodically ascertaining what the model predicts in order to know what to look for. The paper concludes by briefly addressing some of the many other questions raised by the model which have faced comparatively little investigation given the purported pervasiveness of the life cycle. The life--cycle modelThe life cycle of phonological processes (e.g. Bermúdez--Otero 2015) provides an account of how a sound change might develop over the history of a language, from its beginnings in the pressures of speaking and hearing, through its progress to a cognitively--controlled process and maturation into a categorical phenomenon, to its final resting--place as a static lexical or morphological pattern. It has been the subject of increased research in recent times, particularly in the work of Bermúdez--Otero under the rubric of Stratal Optimality Theory (OT); this theory of phonology relates synchronic grammar (phonology and morphology) to diachronic development, in a way that has proven

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Section: Unidirectionalitymentioning

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Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research

Sen

2016

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“…3 Moreover, given that Norwegian once had stress oriented to the left (Lahiri, Riad & Jacobs 1999), it must have been the loanwords that provoked a reanalysis of the orientation of Norwegian stress.…”

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The influence of loanwords on Norwegian and English stress

Dresher¹

2013

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Rice (2006) presents a unified analysis of Norwegian word stress that applies equally to native words and to loanwords. In this analysis, stress is oriented to the right edge of the word, which suggests that the loanwords were responsible for changing what was originally a left-oriented grammar of stress. In this paper I consider a similar reorientation that took place in the history of English, also under the influence of Romance loanwords. Closer examination shows that the two cases appear to be different. Many loanwords of the sort that caused a change in Norwegian entered Middle English without causing any significant change in English stress. It was only in the Early Modern English period that the loanwords were able to impose a right-oriented stress pattern on English. Rice (2006) observes that the loanwords were able to change the Norwegian stress pattern without overtly contradicting the native words; that is, the loanwords could make a change only in aspects of the grammar where the native words were ambiguous. I argue that this principle also accounts for the English case.

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“…Rather, one would expect that it was pronounced with the stress systems of the various native languages of the speakers. It seems that the Germanic shift from initial to final trochaic stress is simply an independent development (a claim implicitly made by Lahiri, Riad and Jacobs 1999), just as the shift from the Proto-Latin initial stress to the stress system of Classical Latin (for an Optimality-theoretic account of this, see Jacobs 2003).…”

Section: Entire Stress Systems Are Not Borrowed From One Language To mentioning

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Autonomous typological prosodic evolution versus the Germanic superstrate in diachronic French phonology

Noske

2009

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

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The traditional idea that in Early French, the Frankish superstrate had a major influence on the phonology is mistaken. Facts from Old Frankish itself show that this cannot have been the case. In addition, the phonetic concept on which the idea is based, i.e. the distinction between 'expiratory' and 'melodic' languages, is outdated and invalid. The facts for which the Frankish influence was invoked find a much more satisfactory explanation if one considers the evolution of the entire prosodic system of the language. The distinction between syllable and word languages, as proposed by Auer and Uhmann, provides a fruitful framework for this.

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6. Diachronic prosody

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Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research

Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research

The influence of loanwords on Norwegian and English stress

Autonomous typological prosodic evolution versus the Germanic superstrate in diachronic French phonology

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