Surface sound and underlying structure : The phonetics-phonology interface in Romance languages

José Ignacio J. I. Hualde (1) , Ioana Chitoran (2, 3)

1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana]
2 CLILLAC-ARP (URP_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus
3 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

Abstract: In this chapter we offer an overview of phenomena at the phonetics-phonology interface in the Romance languages. Processes affecting consonants and vowels are studied separately. Parallels with historical sound changes in the same or in another language are mentioned when relevant.

Keywords: Romance languages; Phonetics; Phonology; allophony; lenition; fortition; assimilation; neutralization; vowel reduction; vowel harmony; coda consonants; palatalization

Domains: Cognitive science; Linguistics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics

José Ignacio J. I. Hualde, Ioana Chitoran. Surface sound and underlying structure : The phonetics-phonology interface in Romance languages. S. Fischer and C. Gabriel. Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance, 10, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.23-40, 2016, Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 978-3-11-031186-0. ⟨hal-01226122⟩