17.2438, Qs: SLA Corpora;Vulgar Latin/Romance Palatalization, Contraction

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Subject: 17.2438, Qs: SLA Corpora;Vulgar Latin/Romance Palatalization, Contraction

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1)
Date: 22-Aug-2006
From: Michael Schwartz < m_schwartz2004 at yahoo.com >
Subject: SLA Corpora 

2)
Date: 21-Aug-2006
From: Benct Philip Jonsson < bpj at melroch.se >
Subject: Vulgar Latin/Romance Palatalization, Contraction 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:48:51
From: Michael Schwartz < m_schwartz2004 at yahoo.com >
Subject: SLA Corpora 
 

I'm looking for a corpus of ESL speakers.  Does anyone know of such a
corprus and where I might find it?

Thanks
Michael Schwartz, University of New Mexico 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition



	
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:48:54
From: Benct Philip Jonsson < bpj at melroch.se >
Subject: Vulgar Latin/Romance Palatalization, Contraction 

	

Subject: Vulgar Latin/Romance palatalization, contraction and diphthongization.

I have a bit of trouble with a passage in Grandgent's ''An Introduction to
Vulgar Latin'' -- an old work, but still of some value as a general
overview.  The passage in question follows.  

- 225. But the combinations _eé, ié, oó, uó_ developed
- differently, _eé_ and _ié_ apparently being
- contracted into _e_, _oó_ and _uó_ into _o_, at an
- early date: _arietem > aretem_ (Varro, ''ares
- veteres pro aries dixisse''); _*de-excito >
- dexcito_ > It. _desto_; _faciebam > *facebam_;
- _mulierem > mul´erem_, the _i_ remaining long
- enough to palatalize the _l_ (the Romance [E] was
- doubtless a later analogical development);
- _parietes  > paretes_; _prehendere >
- prendere_, then _*prendere_ through the analogy
- of _reddere_ and perhaps also of _ascendere,
- defendere, pendere, tendere_; _quietus >
- quetus_, common in late inscriptions (cf.
- _requebit_); _cohortem > cortem_; _cooperire
- > coperire_, then _*coperire *cop'rire_
- through the analogy of _co-_ and perhaps also of
- _opera, opus_; _duodecim > dodecim_
- (_dodece_).

If this contraction really is very early, which it has to be if it preceded
the diphthongization of former _e_ and _o_ into _ie_ and _uo_, *and* it
didn't bleed the palatalization of _l_ (and presumably of _n_) then the
palatalization of resonants itself must be very early indeed, which seems
unlikely to me, unless there were several palatalizations of resonants
occurring at different times, since a palatalization like VERECUNDIA > Old
French _vergogne_ hardly can be 'early' -- at least no source on Vulgar
Latin that I've read mentions any misspellings of the kind one would expect.

I thought that this contraction that Grandgent describes might be a
dialectal phenomenon within Latin that normally didn't affect the dialects
leading to Romance, but I checked the words ARIES and PARIES in
Meyer-Lübke's Romance etymological dictionary which I happen to have
inherited, and they are reflected in Romance languages I really don't know
my way out here, so I'd be grateful for any elucidation anyone might offer. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology


 



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