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Abstract
Some varieties of Camuno, an Eastern Lombard variety spoken in Valcamonica, Italy, show clear evidence of what
appears to be an unconditioned sound change of S > h, where S had [s] and [θ] variants (Bonfadini 1995a; Cresci 2014). However,
neighboring varieties in the upper parts of the valley retain inherited S and, in at least one village, Cerveno,
debuccalization is limited to intervocalic position. In this study, we attempt to explain dialect variation in Camuno in terms of
s-debuccalization as a lenition process within the general framework of Evolutionary Phonology (Blevins 2004a, 2006, 2015) building on the typology established by Ferguson (1990).
The probability of articulatory undershoot is greatest in the V_V environment, and all dialects with S > h
show the sound change in this context. In medial clusters like rS, lS, nS, where there is articulatory overlap
and longer sustained constriction, articulatory undershoot is less likely, and S is most likely to be maintained, as it is in
Cerveno. A treatment of S > h as lenition implies that [s] and [θ] were produced with spread vocal folds in languages where
this sound change has been observed. Here we offer additional evidence for aspiration as an active feature in Camuno phonology and
suggest possible origins of this feature during the long period of contact with Longobardic. Another central issue explored in
this study are phonetic factors that might differentiate intervocalic s > h from s > h that originates in the syllable coda,
as in many varieties of Spanish.
意大利瓦尔卡莫尼卡的东伦巴第语系卡穆诺(Camuno)的一些变体显示出明显的 S > h 的无条件变音迹象,其中 S 有 [s] 和 [θ] 变体(Bonfadini 1995a; Cresci 2014)。然而,山谷上部的邻近变体保留了继承的 S 音,而且至少在一个村庄(Cerveno)中,去低音化仅限于声间位置。在本研究中,我们试图在弗格森(1990 年)建立的类型学基础上,在 "进化语音学"(Blevins,2004a、2006、2015 年)的总体框架内,将 s 脱浊音作为一个 "怠速过程 "来解释卡穆诺方言的变异。在 V_V 环境中,发音下移的可能性最大,所有 S > h 的方言都会在这种情况下出现音变。在 rS、lS、nS 等中间音群中,发音重叠和持续收缩的时间较长,发音下切的可能性较小,S 音最有可能保持不变,Cerveno 中的情况就是如此。将 S > h 视为变长意味着,在观察到这种声音变化的语言中,[s] 和 [θ]是用展开的声带发出的。在这里,我们提供了更多证据,证明吸气是卡穆诺语语音学中的一个活跃特征,并提出这一特征可能起源于与朗格巴德语的长期接触。本研究探讨的另一个核心问题是可能区分发声间 s > h 和发自音节尾音的 s > h 的语音因素,这在许多西班牙语变体中都存在。
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.