Re: [tied] French Vowel Length

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:04:35 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>> But generally in French (as in all
>> Romance), a vowel is "free" before muta cum liquida (ca-pra
>> > chèvre, not cap-ra > *chav-re).
>
>Which seems curiuous when one recalls that one of the stress changes
>from Classical Latin to Proto-Romance is that vowels before muta cum
>liquida came to count as closed! (
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/Italic+Romance/norberg-
>briefhistory.pdf pp5-6)

Perhaps "as in all Romance" isn't totally accurate.
Catalan, for instance, maintains the Proto-Romance
syllabification in some instances (-bl-, -gl-, as in:
<doble> "thick" pron. /dob.ble/ or /do.ple/, <segle>
"century", pron. /seg.gle/ or /se.kle/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...