Old English Palatalization

Hogg, R.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-968x.1979.tb00855.x

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“…It simply means that i-umlaut was active when affrication had already become disactivated and so the velars which got palatalized before i-umlauted vowels did not have the chance to wind up as affricates. In short, the development of the contrastive segment /t/ has to precede i-umlaut, otherwise cinn and cynn would have an identical result, that is, the affricate /t/ (Penzl 1947;Hogg 1979Hogg , 1992aHogg , 1992b.…”

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What do Affrication and Vowel Unrounding Have in Common? The Case of Velar Palatalization in Old English

Kijak

2023

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In this paper we look at two seemingly unrelated historical processes: affrication of the Old English (OE) palatalized velars [kj] > [tʃ], e.g., OE cild > PDE child, OE cīosan > PDE choose, and the Middle English (ME) vowel unrounding [y] > [i] and [ø] > [e]. More specifically, it is argued that the front rounded vowels [y] and [ø], as well as the palatalized velars [kj] and [j], are complex melodic expressions containing two antagonistic resonance elements |I| and |U|. Furthermore, it is proposed here that the phonological system of ME witnessed a drastic change as a consequence of the introduction of the ban on the |I| and |U| merger. This *|I U| constraint is responsible for the loss of the resonance element |U| from the internal structure of both segments, which leads to the unrounding of the i-umlauted vowels and the affrication of the palatalized velars. This paper provides a detailed analysis of velar palatalization and its subsequent affrication, while additionally we address the questions of the lack of affrication before both i-umlauted and unrounded vowels, the palatalization and vocalization of the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ and the chronology of affrication in the history of English.

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“…Hogg (1979) argues that a factor which prevented /k/ from being fronted prior to vowel unrounding was the blocking effect of continuous lip-rounding of the umlauted vowels on the preceding velar stop.…”

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What do Affrication and Vowel Unrounding Have in Common? The Case of Velar Palatalization in Old English

Kijak

2023

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“…We have, then, 8 See §1.5 below, and cf. Moulton 1972: 173;Hogg 1979Hogg , 1982 where in addition the marginality of /gg/ is indicated. Moulton also notes (1972 : 173) that Latin graecus 'Greek' is borrowed into e.g.…”

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