LIN376H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Palatal Consonant, Gemination, Middle French
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Chapter 5 more about vowels: raising, yod effects and nasalization. Italian exhibits three distinct patterns of raising; only the first involves yods. Words that develop a secondary you tend to show sporadic raising of the preceding stressed vowel this tendency involves high mids /e/ and /o/ raising to /i/ and /u/ Regularly, stressed high mids followed by [ ] or [ ] raise one degree to become high vowels: /i/ instead of /e/, /u/ instead of /o/ Q u e s t i o n : answer: low mids raise before / to produce a diphthong. Before / / they don"t raise, but they still fail. The condition for primary diphthongs (i. e. free syllables only) acquired the status of a phonotactic constraint: no blocked syllable can ever contain a diphthong, even from a secondary source. Italian [ ] and [ ] are always geminate, thus blocking the preceding syllable so there can be no diphthong.
