Vowel Length from Latin to Romance
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199656554
Subjects: Romance languages
Description: This publication looks at the changes that took place in vowel length during the development of Latin into the various Romance languages and dialects. It draws on extensive data from a wide range of dialects and presents a new account of these changes, which has implications for a number of issues in Romance historical phonology.