17 Romanian
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Margaret E. L. Renwick
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Modern Standard Romanian, the principal Daco-Romanian variety. It describes and exemplifies the language’s phonological inventory, phonological processes affecting vowels and consonants, acoustic patterns (particularly among vowels), basic stress patterns, and intonational tunes. Attention is given to phenomena that differentiate Romanian from other Romance languages, including its central vowels and diphthongs, metaphony, secondary palatalization, and tolerance for complex consonant clusters. Throughout the chapter, interactions between morphology and phonology are also highlighted. Stress patterns are shown to be largely predictable based on prosodic word boundaries, while the intonational patterns of Romanian can be captured via an autosegmental, ToBI-style approach. The chapter emphasizes recent scholarly works, including theoretical contributions, large-scale phonetic analyses, and studies of variation in Romanian.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Modern Standard Romanian, the principal Daco-Romanian variety. It describes and exemplifies the language’s phonological inventory, phonological processes affecting vowels and consonants, acoustic patterns (particularly among vowels), basic stress patterns, and intonational tunes. Attention is given to phenomena that differentiate Romanian from other Romance languages, including its central vowels and diphthongs, metaphony, secondary palatalization, and tolerance for complex consonant clusters. Throughout the chapter, interactions between morphology and phonology are also highlighted. Stress patterns are shown to be largely predictable based on prosodic word boundaries, while the intonational patterns of Romanian can be captured via an autosegmental, ToBI-style approach. The chapter emphasizes recent scholarly works, including theoretical contributions, large-scale phonetic analyses, and studies of variation in Romanian.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of contents IX
- List of abbreviations XIII
- Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction 1
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I. Key topics in Romance phonology
- 1 Length and weight in Romance 31
- 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification 89
- 3 Processes affecting vowels 127
- 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa 150
- 5 Palatalization in Romance 173
- 6 Nasals and nasalization 215
- 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French 242
- 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages 264
- 9 Intonation 299
- 10 Corpus phonology 319
- 11 Sociophonetics 342
- 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology 375
- 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition 407
- 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology 435
- 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties 462
- 16 Loanword phonology in Romance 503
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II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages
- 17 Romanian 531
- 18 Italian 559
- 19 Sardinian 597
- 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh 628
- 21 French 669
- 22 Occitan 709
- 23 Catalan 743
- 24 Spanish 779
- 25 Judeo-Spanish 808
- 26 Portuguese 839
- 27 Galician 882
- 28 Romance-lexifier creoles 929
- List of contributors 955
- Index 957
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of contents IX
- List of abbreviations XIII
- Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction 1
-
I. Key topics in Romance phonology
- 1 Length and weight in Romance 31
- 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification 89
- 3 Processes affecting vowels 127
- 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa 150
- 5 Palatalization in Romance 173
- 6 Nasals and nasalization 215
- 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French 242
- 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages 264
- 9 Intonation 299
- 10 Corpus phonology 319
- 11 Sociophonetics 342
- 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology 375
- 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition 407
- 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology 435
- 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties 462
- 16 Loanword phonology in Romance 503
-
II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages
- 17 Romanian 531
- 18 Italian 559
- 19 Sardinian 597
- 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh 628
- 21 French 669
- 22 Occitan 709
- 23 Catalan 743
- 24 Spanish 779
- 25 Judeo-Spanish 808
- 26 Portuguese 839
- 27 Galician 882
- 28 Romance-lexifier creoles 929
- List of contributors 955
- Index 957
