Database
Gascon
(Southern Casconha, France; Romance, Occitan)
Summary:
The Latin CV(C)Cr/l sequence is realized as Cr/lV(C)C in Gascon.
Summary:
The Latin CV(C)Cr/l sequence is realized as Cr/lV(C)C in Gascon.
Examples:
| Latin | Gascon | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| ca'pra | cra'ba | 'goat' |
| (ex)combra're | escrumba' | 'to sweep' |
| ca'stra | cra'ste | 'ditch' |
Conditions:
No information currently available.
No information currently available.
Motivation:
Syllable Weight (Dumenil 1987): In a consonant cluster starting a non-initial syllable, a liquid shifts across syllable boundaries to the preceding syllable if that syllable is heavier than the syllable to which the liquid originally belonged. (In calculating syllable weight, input and environment weights are considered based on Bailey (1973)'s implicational feature coefficient.)
$ C V (C) $ C L V --> 1 2 7 3 4 5 6 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Condition: 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8
Syllable Weight (Dumenil 1987): In a consonant cluster starting a non-initial syllable, a liquid shifts across syllable boundaries to the preceding syllable if that syllable is heavier than the syllable to which the liquid originally belonged. (In calculating syllable weight, input and environment weights are considered based on Bailey (1973)'s implicational feature coefficient.)
$ C V (C) $ C L V --> 1 2 7 3 4 5 6 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Condition: 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8
Related Information:
a. /p, t, k/ are voiced in intervocalic position in Gascon.
/favrika/ -> [favriga]
a. /p, t, k/ are voiced in intervocalic position in Gascon.
/favrika/ -> [favriga]
Symbols:
V' = vowel with acute accent
Last Updated: 6/13/2007
V' = vowel with acute accent
Last Updated: 6/13/2007
References:
- Bailey, Charles-James. 1973. Variation and Linguistic Theory. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.
- Dumenil, Annie. 1983. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon. PhD. dissertation. Uniersity of South Carolina.
- Dumenil, Annie. 1987. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon. Lingvisticoe Investigationes XI:1, 81-113.
