Timeline for Vowel harmony in Spanish?
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| S May 6, 2018 at 0:56 | history | suggested | iacobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Cleaned up formatting of examples - lined up columns.
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| Oct 26, 2012 at 17:37 | comment | added | lapropriu | @dainichi Romance metaphony is not a living, purely phonological process, so you won't always clearly see the conditioning context. There is evidence that it was once active in the language, but it might not be active any more. Additionally, there's the question of where morphology fits into the life-span of a phonological process, with stuff like paradigm leveling, morphologization etc. | |
| Oct 26, 2012 at 0:30 | comment | added | dainichi | @lapropriu, actually, it's not only the preterites, but also the present subjunctive (sintamos, sintáis, durmamos, durmáis) where no [j] is following. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 11:40 | comment | added | lapropriu | @dainichi I got so excited about vowel harmony that I completely failed to read your examples. Some of those stem alternations in Spanish verbs are regular changes from Latin. Stressed low mids diphthongized in Spanish, giving you siento and duermo, vs. sentir and dormir. But your third forms, the preterites, do have metaphonic raising of unstressed vowels from [j] of -io and -ieron (only in -ir verbs). So you're right that this is for unstressed vowels, but I think it's only in verbs. Other yod-induced raising seems to be under stress, but sb correct me if that's not the case. | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 10:29 | comment | added | dainichi | Very cool stuff, thanks! I definitely need to spend more time to go through the whole answer, but just one thought. "Raising of a stressed vowel under the influence of a following high vowel" isn't what's happening in my examples, is it? It looks more like "raising of an unstressed vowel under the influence of a following mid/low vowel". | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 10:23 | comment | added | Alenanno | Quite a detailed answer! :) | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 10:06 | history | answered | lapropriu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |