Affiliation:
1. 1University of Verona, Verona, Italy
2. 2UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Abstract
AbstractThis paper investigates place of articulation shifts involving heterosyllabic C[non-coronal]C[coronal] clusters. Such phenomena are found, among other languages, in the diachrony of Italiot Greek, where three typologically different historical stages are observed: (a) no shifts; (b) dorsal > labial shift; (c) dorsal, labial > coronal shift. Drawing on Rice's (1994) model of the Place node and the markedness hierarchy dorsal ≺ labial ≺ coronal (with “≺” denoting ‘more marked than’) (de Lacy 2002), I maintain that these shifts reduce the markedness of codas. The gradual typological changes are accounted for in terms of Property Theory (Alber & Prince 2015).
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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