The voiced and voiceless outcomes of intervocalic -SJ- in Old Tuscan

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali

Stefano Canalis¹ 

[1] Università degli Studi di Padova;

关键词: Intervocalic Voicing;    Sound Change;   

DOI  :  10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-21343

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper deals with the non-systematic voicing of intervocalic sj in Old Tuscan. Old Tuscan displays both voiceless [ʃ] and voiced [ʒ] as outcomes of intervocalic sj, without an obvious phonological conditioning determining them. None of the existing attempts to account for this dual outcome – the search for a Neogrammarian regularity, the supposed introduction of [ʒ] through lexical borrowing, the hypothesis of a variable sound change – is completely satisfactory. It will be proposed that the hypothesis of a variable result of this sound change can be theoretically refined and given new empirical arguments. Specifically, it will be argued that an allophonic voicing rule may be followed by a partial lexical re-categorization of its output, and it will be shown that the outcome [ʒ] is most likely when the following vowel is low and/or stressed.

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