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Catalan is characterized by final-obstruent devoicing, lenition, and voicing assimilation; a set of 7 to 8 phonemic vowels, vowel assimilations (including vowel harmony ), many phonetic diphthongs, and vowel reduction, whose precise details differ between dialects.
Oct 31, 2023 · Dr Wheeler describes Barcelona pronunciation and the major varieties of western Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca, and considers social and stylistic variation. The author's approach is through a...
Jul 21, 2005 · A comprehensive account of Catalan phonology by Max W Wheeler, covering segment inventories, syllable structure, phrasal phonology, and more. The book is based on Optimality Theory and articulatory phonetics, and includes a bibliography and references.
Catalan is one of the Western Romance languages; it is most closely related to Occitan and only diverged from it between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries [1] after the cultural ties with France were broken.
The article gives an overview of the origin and vitality of several ongoing processes of change in Catalan. In the area of consonants, it presents (a) the existing alternation between [ʎ] and [j] or [ʝ] (and [ʒ]) in Eastern Catalan and (b) the variation between post-alveolo-palatal fricatives and affricates in different positions in word ...
Jul 22, 2005 · After an introduction to the varieties of Catalan the author devotes chapters to segment inventories; syllable structure; phrasal phonology; coda voicing; coda place; cluster reduction;...
Jul 21, 2005 · This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian.
