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Acoustic and Perceptual Explanations for Rhotacism in Latin and Germanic
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Painter, Robert Kenneth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the phonetic mechanisms of the sound change known as rhotacism (/s/ greater than /z/ greater than /r/) which is observed in Italic, Germanic, and Sanskrit, among other languages, employing lab-based methods of "experimental historical phonology" (Ohala 1974), and approaching sound change from the theoretical standpoint…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Latin, Classical Languages