Examples:
(See Comments
for key to special characters used.) |
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| Latin |
Gascon |
Gloss |
| ca'pra |
cra'ba |
'goat' |
| (ex)combra're |
escrumba' |
'to sweep' |
| ca'stra |
cra'ste |
'ditch' |
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Conditions: |
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No information currently availble. |
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Motivation: |
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Syllable Weight (Dumenil 1987): In a consonant cluster starting
a non-initial syllable, a liquid shifts across syllable boundaries to the
preceding syllable if that syllable is heavier than the syllable to which
the liquid originally belonged. (In calculating syllable weight, input and
environment weights are considered based on Bailey (1973)'s implicational
feature coefficient.)
$ C V (C) $ C L
V --> 1 2 7 3 4 5 6 8
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
Condition: 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8
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Related processes: |
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a. /p, t, k/ are voiced in intervocalic position in Gascon.
/favrika/ -> [favriga]
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Comments: |
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Special Symbols:
V' = vowel with acute accent
Last updated: 2/6/2002
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References: |
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Bailey, Charles-James. 1973. Variation and Linguistic Theory.
Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.
Dumenil, Annie. 1983. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon.
PhD. dissertation. Uniersity of South Carolina.
Dumenil, Annie. 1987. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon.
Lingvisticoe Investigationes XI:1, 81-113.
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