{"id":940,"date":"2020-06-12T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2020-06-12T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:40:08","slug":"asymmetries-in-latin-glide-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/asymmetries-in-latin-glide-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymmetries in Latin glide formation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us assume, as I have in the past<\/a>, that the Classical Latin glides [j, w] are allophones of the short high monophthongs \/i, u\/. Then, any analysis of this allophony must address the following four asymmetries between [j] and [w]:<\/p>\n

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  1. Intervocalical \/i\/ is [j.j], as in peior <\/em>[pej.jor] ‘worse’; intervocalic \/u\/ is simple.<\/li>\n
  2. Intervocalically, \/iu\/ is realized as [jw], as in\u00a0laeua<\/em> [laj.wa] ‘left, leftwards’ (fem. nom.sg.), but \/ui\/ is realized as [wi], as in paui\u014d<\/em> [pa.wi.o\u02d0] ‘I beat’.<\/li>\n
  3. \/u\/ preceded by a liquid and followed by a vowel is also realized as [w], as in\u00a0ceruus<\/em> [ker.wus] and\u00a0silua<\/em> [sil.wa] ‘forest’, but \/i\/ is never realized as a glide in this position.<\/li>\n
  4. There are two cases in which [u] alternates with [w] (the deadjectival suffix \/-u-\/ is realized as \/-w-\/ when preceded by a liquid, as in caluus<\/em> [cal.wus] ‘bald’, and the perfect suffix \/-u-\/ is realized as \/-w-\/ in “thematic” stems like cup\u012bu\u012b<\/em> [ku.pi\u02d0.wi\u02d0] ‘I desired’); there are no alternations between [i] and [j].<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What rules gives rise to these asymmetries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Let us assume, as I have in the past, that the Classical Latin glides [j, w] are allophones of the short high monophthongs \/i, u\/. Then, any analysis of this allophony must address the following four asymmetries between [j] and [w]: Intervocalical \/i\/ is [j.j], as in peior [pej.jor] ‘worse’; intervocalic \/u\/ is simple. Intervocalically, … Continue reading “Asymmetries in Latin glide formation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-latin","category-phonology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}