Proto-Romance Phonology

Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
	1.1 The Comparative Method
	1.2 Phonological Reconstruction
	1.3 The Nature of Proto-Romance
2 The Phonemic Inventory of Proto-Romance
	2.1 Languages Compared
	2.2 Prosodic Features
	2.3 Vowels
		tense i
		lax i
		tense u
		lax u
		close e
		open e
		close o
		open o
		a
	2.4 Semi-Vowels
	2.5 Consonants
	2.6 Vowel-Clusters and Diphthongs
	2.7 Clusters of Two Consonants
		2.7.1 Homosyllabic
		2.7.2 Ambisyllabic: Double Geminate
		2.7.2 Ambisyllabic: Other
	2.8 Clusters of Three Consonants
		2.8.1 Not Palatalised or Labialised
		2.8.2 Ending in j
		2.8.3 Ending in w
3 Proto-Romance and Latin
	3.1 Every-Day and Literary Latin
	3.2 From Gracchan Latin to Proto-Romance
4 Major Developments in Early Romance
	4.1 Earliest Divisions
	4.2 Further Early Developments in Vocalism
	4.3 Early Developments in Consonantism
	4.4 Prosodic Features
	4.5 Sporadic Sound-Changes
	4.6 Phonological Effects of Analogical Substitution
	4.7 Borrowings
Appendix I. Further Phonological Tables
Appendix II. List of Proto-Romance Words
	a
	b
	d, e, f
	g
	i, j
	k
	l
	m
	n
	o, p
	r, s
	t
	u
References: Abbreviations, Authors and Titles
Index