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AN OUTLINE OF THE PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF OLD PROVEN?AL.
VOWELS.
SOUND. SPELLINGS. EXAMPLES.
u?: see o?, ?
CONSONANTS.
SOUND. SPELLING. EXAMPLES.
There are some exceptions to the rule of the persistence of the accent in Vulgar Latin:--
QUANTITY.
ACCENTED VOWELS.
The development of the Vulgar Latin vowels in Proven?al will now be examined in detail:--
Many learned words, including proper names, have ? for e?: decr?t, Elizab?t, Moys?s, pant?ra, requi?s, secr?t , senc?r.
The breaking was probably due to a premature lifting of the tongue under the influence of a following high vowel or a palatal or velar consonant, or to a premature partial closure of the lips in anticipation of a following labial. Before i or a palatal the diphthong was at the start presumably ?o; before u or a labial or velar consonant, uo: from these two types, the first of which influenced the second, came the later developments. ? is a reduction of ?o or ?e; it apparently does not occur before u.
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