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<br /></br><hr /><b>Tesis doctoral: </b><br />Müller, Daniela. 2011.
Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and
cross-linguistic context. Universitat de Tolosa 2 - Lo Miralh
(Francia), CLLE-ERSS.<br />URL: <a
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/><b>Director/a de tesis: </b>Patric Sauzet <br /><br
/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>This thesis analyses sound changes that
affected the lateral approximant inherited from Latin in Occitan
dialects, in the Romance languages, and in a number of other languages
from around the world. Chapter 1 gives a comprehensive overview of the
research carried out on the lateral approximant; it discusses
articulation and acoustics as well as abstract representations of the
sound. Chapters 2 to 5 are devoted to specific sound changes which
occurred in Occitan dialects at different points in time. These
developments are systematically compared to similar phenomena in
Romance and other languages. In chapter 2, I discuss the vocalisation
of the dark lateral in preconsonantal and word-final position as well
as intervocalically. It is argued there that Occitan and more
generally Romance followed an unexpected pathway towards vocalisation,
which cannot be explained by phonetic factors alone. Chapter 3 deals
with palatalisation of the lateral in onset clusters. Rather than in
articulatory assimilation, I propose that the origin of this sound
change is to be sought in the frication which accompanied the
obstruent + lateral onset clusters. Rhoticisation of the lateral, and
its opposite, lambdacisation of the rhotic, is the topic of chapter 4.
In this chapter, I discuss duration factors in these sound changes and
present experimental evidence to substantiate the idea that duration
plays an important role. Finally, chapter 5 looks at the developments
of the Latin geminate lateral in Gascon and other Romance dialects;
according to common opinion, the Latin geminate lateral underwent a
retroflexion process, and I discuss how this might have been possible
from a phonetic point of view.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b>
Fonética, Lingüística histórica, Lingüística románica<br /><br
/><b>Índice</b><br /><p>1 Characteristics of the lateral
approximant<br />1.1 Articulation of the lateral<br />1.1.1 Tongue tip
and blade<br />1.1.2 Tongue tip – tongue body coördination<br
/>1.1.3 Tongue body<br />1.1.4 Origins of positional variants of the
lateral<br />1.2 The acoustic structure of the lateral<br />1.2.1 The
formant structure of the lateral<br />1.2.2 The zero in the transfer
function caused by lateral side channels<br />1.3 Gestures of the
lateral<br />1.4 Phonological views of the lateral<br />1.5 Conclusion
and outlook<br /><br />2 Vocalisation of dark /l/<br />2.1
/l/-vocalisation in preconsonantal and word-final position<br />2.1.1
The geographic and historical expansion of /l/-vocalisation in
preconsonantal and word-final position<br />2.1.2 Articulation and
perception of /l/-vocalisation as a sound change in progress<br
/>2.1.3 Explaining /l/-vocalisation<br />2.1.4 Conclusion<br />2.2
Vocalisation of dark /l/ in intervocalic position<br />2.2.1 The
geographic and historical expansion of /l/-vocalisation in
intervocalic position<br />2.2.2 Explaining the developments of
intervocalic /l/<br />2.2.3 Conclusion<br /><br />3 Palatalisation of
/l/ in onset clusters<br />3.1 The geographic extent of
/l/-palatalisation in onset clusters<br />3.1.1 The palatalisation of
/l/ in onset clusters in Occitan<br />3.1.2 /l/-palatalisation in
onset clusters in Romance and elsewhere<br />3.1.3 /j/-lateralisation
in labial + palatal onset clusters<br />3.2 The phonetic
characteristics of stop + lateral onset clusters<br />3.3 Evolution of
/l/-palatalisation in onset clusters<br />3.3.1 Articulatory
explanations<br />3.3.2 /l/-palatalisation in labial + lateral
clusters as an effect of analogy<br />3.3.3 Experimental phonetic
approaches to /l/-palatalisation in onset clusters<br />3.3.4 The
lateral fricative hypothesis<br />3.4 Conclusions<br /><br />4
Rhoticisation of the lateral<br />4.1 Rhoticisation of /l/ in Occitan,
in Romance, and elsewhere<br />4.1.1 Rhoticisation in Occitan
dialects<br />4.1.2 Rhoticisation in other Romance languages<br
/>4.1.3 Rhoticisation (and lambdacisation) cross-linguistically<br
/>4.2 Phonetic differences and similarities between /l/ and /r/<br
/>4.2.1 Differences and similarities in articulation between /l/ and
/r/<br />4.2.2 Differences and similarities in the acoustic structure
of /l/ and /r/<br />4.3 Explaining /l/-rhoticisation (and
/r/-lambdacisation)<br />4.4 Conclusion<br /><br />5 Retroflex
developments of the latin geminate lateral in Gascon<br />5.1
Retroflex developments of Latin /l:/ in Gascon and elsewhere<br
/>5.1.1 Developments of Latin /l:/ in Gascon<br />5.1.2 Developments
of Latin /l:/ in Upper Aragonese and Western Asturian<br />5.1.3
Developments of Latin /l:/ in Southern Italian and Sardinian
dialects<br />5.1.4 Retroflexion processes affecting the lateral
elsewhere <br />5.2 A century of puzzlement — explaining the fate of
Latin /l:/ in Romance<br />5.2.1 Substrates and colonisations<br
/>5.2.2 Structuralist approaches<br />5.2.3 How Latin /l:/ evolved in
Gascon: the retroflexion hypothesis<br />5.2.4 How Latin /l:/ evolved
in Gascon: the palatalisation hypothesis<br />5.2.5 The mixed
hypotheses: palatalisatio-ex-retroflexione and
retroflexio-ex-palatalisatione<br />5.3 Phonetic views on Romance
retroflexion of Latin /l:/ <br />5.3.1 Articulatory and acoustic
characteristics of retroflex consonants<br />5.3.2 Phonetic approaches
to the evolution of retroflexion of Latin /l:/ in Gascon and the other
Romance languages and dialects<br />5.4 Conclusion<br /><br
/>Appendix<br />A The lateral of Latin<br /><br />Bibliography</p><br
/><b>Fecha de lectura o defensa:</b> 2 de diciembre de 2011<br /><br
/><b>Número de págs.:</b> 233<br /><br /><b>Correo-e del
autor/a:</b> <daniela.muller@univ-tlse2.fr><br /><br
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