Palatalization in Romance: an investigation of the sound change in French and Spanish

Abstract This thesis discusses and compares the change of velar stops into palatoalveolar affricates, a process termed velar palatalization, in the Romance languages French and Spanish. Firstly, velar palatalization will be defined and several explanations offered by other theorists will be examine...

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Main Author: Fielding, Steven
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8550