The Phonology of Romanian

A Constraint-Based Approach

By: Ioana Chitoran

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Hardcover | 1 January 2002

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This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory.

The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model.

The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.

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In brief, the Romanian data provide fascinating and substantial fodder for our continuing investigation of the contents of the phonological component of the human language faculty, and Chitoran has done the field a service by making such a large and comprehensive body of data available in a single place.
Bert Vaux in: Phonology 23/2006

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Abbreviations and symbols	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of Romanian phonology and morphology	p. 7
The phoneme inventory	p. 7
Phonotactics	p. 12
Syllable structure	p. 19
The representation of diphthongs	p. 21
The structure of the Romanian vocabulary	p. 27
Inflectional and derivational morphology	p. 32
Inflections	p. 35
Derivations	p. 44
Summary	p. 49
The stress system	p. 51
Primary stress in verbs	p. 53
First and fourth conjugation verbs	p. 54
Third conjugation verbs	p. 66
Lexically marked exceptions	p. 70
Primary stress in nouns and adjectives	p. 75
Monomorphemic words: the unmarked pattern	p. 75
Monomorphemic nouns and adjectives: the marked pattern	p. 81
Morphologically complex words	p. 83
Secondary stress	p. 86
Summary	p. 91
Hiatus resolution	p. 95
Vowel features and the representation of epenthetic glides	p. 96
The quality of the epenthetic glide	p. 103
Stress-dependent patterns	p. 110
Surface hiatus	p. 120
Summary	p. 124
High vowel--glide alternations	p. 127
Word-initial glides	p. 128
Word-internal postvocalic glides	p. 131
Word-final postvocalic glides	p. 133
Underlying sequences of three vowels	p. 142
Central vowels and place harmony	p. 144
Summary	p. 149
Post-consonantal glides and palatalization	p. 151
Post-consonantal glides and place co-occurrence restrictions	p. 152
Glides in morphologically derived forms	p. 164
Phonological and morphological palatalization	p. 173
Velar palatalization	p. 178
Morphological palatalization	p. 185
Summary	p. 198
The diphthongs ea, oa and mid-low vowel alternations	p. 201
Data and previous analyses	p. 203
Vowel height and stress	p. 209
The phonological conditioning of mid-low vowel alternations	p. 213
The phonological behavior of ea and oa	p. 213
The phonological behavior of the low vowel a	p. 222
The morphological conditioning of mid-low vowel alternations	p. 225
Morphologization and morphologically specific constraints	p. 232
Acoustic properties of the diphthongs	p. 243
Summary	p. 250
Conclusions and issues for further research	p. 253
Stress patterns	p. 259
References	p. 265
Index	p. 275
Index of constraints	p. 277
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