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View article: The vowels that almost harmonized: On Old Hungarian long vowels
The vowels that almost harmonized: On Old Hungarian long vowels Open
While in Modern Hungarian labial harmony is confined to short front non-high vowels, in Late Old Hungarian some suffixes including non-high long vowels were also able to undergo labial harmony. This paper discusses three of the most widely…
View article: A chapter from the history of labial harmony in Hungarian: A curious case of alternation and variability
A chapter from the history of labial harmony in Hungarian: A curious case of alternation and variability Open
This paper looks at the alternations introduced by the Old Hungarian regressive labialization of front vowels through the example of a lexical set, the derivational family based on the stem dics- ‘glory, praise’. This alternation was highl…
View article: Consonant clusters and verb stems: making sense of distributional gaps
Consonant clusters and verb stems: making sense of distributional gaps Open
This paper investigates an apparent gap in the distribution of nasal + stop clusters, as well as certain aspects of the diachronic emergence of this gap, in Latin and Hungarian. The phenomenon investigated is the absence of a frequent cons…
View article: Sound patterns, frequency and predictability in inflection
Sound patterns, frequency and predictability in inflection Open
The paper investigates the relations between phonological form and information content within Latin verbal inflection from two interrelated points of view. It looks at conditional entropy relations within the present paradigm to see how th…
View article: The lowering of high vowels before [r] in Latin
The lowering of high vowels before [r] in Latin Open
This paper discusses a putative sound change in the early history of Latin and synchronic alternations apparently related to it. The lowering of short high vowels before the rhotic is problematic on several counts; so much so that serious …
View article: Prefix Allomorphy and the Phonologisation of s‐Deletion in Latin
Prefix Allomorphy and the Phonologisation of s‐Deletion in Latin Open
Latin s ‐final prefixes show extensive allomorphy, which can be ascribed to different diachronic processes such as the drive to maintain contrast, analogical attraction and a sound change that deleted s before voiced consonants. We argue t…
View article: Historical phonology and morphology in the nineteenth century: abstractness vs. empiricism
Historical phonology and morphology in the nineteenth century: abstractness vs. empiricism Open
In the first half of the nineteenth century comparative and historical linguistics focused mainly on morphological structure. Although important phonological discoveries were made, phonology played a subsidiary role to morphology. What cou…