The Phonology of Romanian
eBook - PDF

The Phonology of Romanian

A Constraint-Based Approach

  1. 287 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Phonology of Romanian

A Constraint-Based Approach

About this book

This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory.

The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model.

The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.

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Table of contents

  1. Abbreviations and symbols
  2. Chapter 1: Introduction
  3. Chapter 2: Overview of Romanian phonology and morphology
  4. 2.1. The phoneme inventory
  5. 2.2. Phonotactics
  6. 2.3. Syllable structure
  7. 2.4. The representation of diphthongs
  8. 2.5. The structure of the Romanian vocabulary
  9. 2.6. Inflectional and derivational morphology
  10. 2.7. Summary
  11. Chapter 3: The stress system
  12. 3.1. Primary stress in verbs
  13. 3.2. Primary stress in nouns and adjectives
  14. 3.3. Secondary stress
  15. 3.4. Summary
  16. Chapter 4: Hiatus resolution
  17. 4.1. Vowel features and the representation of epenthetic glides
  18. 4.2. The quality of the epenthetic glide
  19. 4.3. Stress-dependent patterns
  20. 4.4. Surface hiatus
  21. 4.5. Summary
  22. Chapter 5: High vowel - glide alternations
  23. 5.1. Word-initial glides
  24. 5.2. Word-internal postvocalic glides
  25. 5.3. Word-final postvocalic glides
  26. 5.4. Underlying sequences of three vowels
  27. 5.5. Central vowels and place harmony
  28. 5.6. Summary
  29. Chapter 6: Post-consonantal glides and palatalization
  30. 6.1. Post-consonantal glides and place co-occurrence restrictions
  31. 6.2. Glides in morphologically derived forms
  32. 6.3. Phonological and morphological palatalization
  33. 6.4. Summary
  34. Chapter 7: The diphthongs e̯a, ̯o̯a and mid-low vowel alternations
  35. 7.1. Data and previous analyses
  36. 7.2. Vowel height and stress
  37. 7.3. The phonological conditioning of mid-low vowel alternations
  38. 7.4. The morphological conditioning of mid-low vowel alternations
  39. 7.5. Morphologization and morphologically specific constraints
  40. 7.6. Acoustic properties of the diphthongs
  41. 7.7. Summary
  42. Chapter 8: Conclusions and issues for further research
  43. Appendix: Stress patterns
  44. References
  45. Index
  46. Index of constraints