2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Universal Research on the Mechanism of Phonetic Spreading and Diffusion in the Romance Languages
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10610507
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
その他の外国語・外国文学
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| Research Institution | Iwate University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAMURA Kazuchika Iwate University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor, 人文社会科学部, 助教授 (80234277)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | Romance Languages / Sound Change / Linguistic Change |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to make a thorough investigation of old docunemtary and dialectal materials in the whole Romance languages and their dialects on the basis of a methodology of general phonetics. The main focus of the research is to explicate the mechanism of phonetic spreading and diffusion of a Latin medial consonantal cluster /kt/.
It was found that the Romance treatment of the Latin medial consonantal cluster /kt/ was divided into four manners :
/kt/ > pt (in Rumanian) ; /kt/ > t (in Dalmatian, Istro-Romance, Rhaeto-Romance and the Italian dialect of Emilia-Romagna) ; /kt/ > tt (in the Central and Southern Italian dialects and in Sardinian) ; /kt/ > it (in the Italian dialects of Lombardia, Veneto, Piemonte and Liguria, in Occitan, French, Catalan, Spanish and Galician-Portuguese).
It was also found that c (< it) or t penetrated other languages or dialects.
(Other details are omitted.)
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