LIN376H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Front Vowel, Gemination, Australian Institute Of Architects
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The romance languages all have larger consonant inventories than latin had. The palate, the roof of the mouth, is located midway in the range of points of articulation where consonant closures can be made. The palate is the target of various instances of compromise articulation: when a gesture aiming at one point of articulation is adjacent to a gesture aiming at a different point of articulation, the two tend to become simultaneous. The yod (/j/ in ipa) is the palatal gesture par excellence. It exerts a powerful pull on neighbouring segments, as the new palatal consonants have a god involved somewhere in their origin. In latin, apart from the diphthongs, , any sequence written with two vowel graphemes represents two syllables. There are three ways to eliminate vowel hiatus. Sometimes it"s resolved by deleting one of the vowels. Vowel hiatus may also be resolved by inserting an epenthetic glide.
