Studies in phonetics, phonology and sound change in Romance

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This volume compiles contributions from phoneticians and phonologists focused on sound change, aiming to enhance understanding of its causes and mechanisms through articulatory and acoustic analysis of phonetic data and perceptual evaluation. The papers explore significant sound changes in Romance linguistics, including vowel diphthongization in Italian dialects and Romanian, vowel harmony in Valencian Catalan, the emergence of uvular [ʀ] in French, vowel and consonant epenthesis in the sequence /sr/ in Italian, liquid consonant dissimilation in Latin, raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian, and glide insertion and elision across Romance languages. Specific studies include Giovanni Abete's examination of prosodic aspects of spontaneous diphthongization in Italo-Romance dialects, Maria Grazia Busà's analysis of consonant cluster mutations, Ricard Herrero and Jesús Jiménez's research on coarticulation and vowel harmony, Yves Charles Morin's insights into the transition from apical [r] to uvular [ʀ] in Montreal French, and Daniela Müller's focus on liquid dissimilation in Latin. Daniel Recasens discusses glide insertion and elision, while Antonio Romano and Michela Russo explore vowel trajectories and prosodic traits in Italian dialects. The book is part of the LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics series.