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75-514: Eastern Algonquian constitutes a separate genetic subgroup within Algonquian. Two other recognized groups of Algonquian languages, Plains Algonquian and Central Algonquian , are geographic but do not refer to genetic subgroupings. A consensus classification of the known Eastern Algonquian languages and dialects by Goddard (1996) is given below with some emendation, for example treatment of Massachusett and Narragansett as distinct languages. In

150-416: A Uralic language , the open vowel [ a ] is raised to near-open [ æ ] after a palatalized consonant, as in the name of the language, [erzʲæ] . In Russian , the back vowels /u o/ are fronted to central [ʉ ɵ] , and the open vowel /a/ is raised to near-open [æ] , near palatalized consonants. The palatalized consonants also factor in how unstressed vowels are reduced . Palatalization

225-750: A [ɡ] and ⟨ ق ⟩ represents a [q] , which shows a strong correlation between the palatalization of ⟨ ج ⟩ to [d͡ʒ] and the pronunciation of the ⟨ ق ⟩ as a [ɡ] as shown in the table below: Some modern Arabic varieties developed palatalization of ⟨ ك ⟩ (turning [ k ] into [ tʃ ] , [ ts ] , [ ʃ ] , or [ s ] ), ⟨ ق ⟩ (turning [ɡ~q] into [ dʒ ] or [ dz ] ) and ⟨ ج ⟩ (turning [ d͡ʒ ] into [ j ] ), usually when adjacent to front vowel, though these palatalizations also occur in other environments as well. These three palatalizations occur in

300-456: A palatalized articulation of a consonant or, in certain cases, a front vowel . Palatalization involves change in the place or manner of articulation of consonants , or the fronting or raising of vowels . In some cases, palatalization involves assimilation or lenition . Palatalization is sometimes an example of assimilation . In some cases, it is triggered by a palatal or palatalized consonant or front vowel, but in other cases, it

375-581: A velar , giving [x] ( c.  1650 ). (See History of the Spanish language and Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives for more information). Palatalization has played a major role in the history of English, and of other languages and language groups throughout the world, such as the Slavic languages . In Anglo-Frisian , the language that gave rise to English and the Frisian languages ,

450-491: A Southern New England subgroup. Costa develops the proposal in some detail, providing arguments based upon several shared innovations found within SNEA. Costa, largely following Siebert, proposes that the following languages are assigned to SNEA: Massachusett, Narragansett, Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk (probably also including Western and Niantic), Quiripi-Naugatuck, Unquachog, and Loup A. Etchemin may also have been part of this group but

525-548: A change historically, *keeli → tšeeli 'language', but there is currently an additional distinction between palatalized laminal and non-palatalized apical consonants. An extreme example occurs in Spanish , whose palatalized ( 'soft' ) g has ended up as [x] from a long process where Latin /ɡ/ became palatalized to [ɡʲ] (Late Latin) and then affricated to [dʒ] (Proto-Romance), deaffricated to [ʒ] (Old Spanish), devoiced to [ʃ] (16th century), and finally retracted to

600-629: A common ancestor and synchronic variation . Dialectologists are concerned with grammatical features that correspond to regional areas. Thus, they are usually dealing with populations living in specific locales for generations without moving, but also with immigrant groups bringing their languages to new settlements. Immigrant groups often bring their linguistic practices to new settlements, leading to distinct linguistic varieties within those communities. Dialectologists analyze these immigrant dialects to understand how languages develop and diversify in response to migration and cultural interactions. Phonology

675-403: A female) /ʕajnu ki / is pronounced: Speakers in these dialects that do not use the palatalization would merge the feminine and masculine suffix pronouns e.g. عينك [ʕe̞ːn ək ] ('your eye' to a male/female) as opposed to Classical Arabic /ʕajnuk a / عَيْنُكَ ('your eye' to a male) and /ʕajnuk i / عَيْنُكِ ('your eye' to a female) and most other modern urban dialects /ʕeːn ak / (to

750-576: A genetic subgroup. Similarities among subsets of some of the Eastern Algonquian languages have led to several proposals for further subgroupings within Eastern Algonquian: Abenakian, Southern New England Algonquian (SNEA), and Delawaran, with the latter consisting of Mahican and Common Delaware, a further subgroup. The amount of evidence for each subgrouping varies, and the incomplete record for many parts of

825-474: A hard ⟨c⟩ is a spelling pronunciation , since the actual Old English pronunciation gave rise to witch . Others include the following: In some English-speaking areas, the sound /s/ changed to /ʃ/, like for example in the words Worcestershire (/wʊs.tɚ.ʃiɹ/ to /wʊʃ.tɚ.ʃiɹ/) and Association (/əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/ to /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/). Various other examples include asphalt , (to) assume . While in most Semitic languages, e.g. Aramaic , Hebrew , Ge'ez

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900-452: A historical language form is also possible. It may be distinguished from diachronic, which regards a phenomenon in terms of developments through time. Diachronic analysis is the main concern of historical linguistics. However, most other branches of linguistics are concerned with some form of synchronic analysis. The study of language change offers a valuable insight into the state of linguistic representation, and because all synchronic forms are

975-413: A hybrid known as phono-semantic matching . In languages with a long and detailed history, etymology makes use of philology , the study of how words change from culture to culture over time. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information (such as writing) to be known. By analysis of related languages by

1050-420: A male) and /ʕeːn ik / (to a female). Assyrian Neo-Aramaic features the palatalization of kaph (turning /k/ into [ tʃ ] ), taw (turning /t/ into [ ʃ ] ) and gimel (turning /ɡ/ into [ dʒ ] ), albeit in some dialects only and seldom in the standardized version of the language. The Romance languages developed from Vulgar Latin , the colloquial form of Latin spoken in

1125-474: A nearby palatal or palatalized consonant or by a high front vowel. The Germanic umlaut is a famous example. A similar change is reconstructed in the history of Old French in which Bartsch's law turned open vowels into [e] or [ɛ] after a palatalized velar consonant. If it was true for all open vowels in Old French, it would explain the palatalization of velar plosives before /a/ . In Erzya ,

1200-510: A number of kindred tribes and tribal members, the Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust (partly administered by Darryl Jamieson), theater and educational company Atelier Jaku, record labels Joyful Noise Recordings and Stone Tapes , and producer Yonatan Gat (founder and curator of Stone Tapes). The labor involved in this endeavor includes educational symposia, storytelling presentations, traditional ceremonies, and especially

1275-492: A number of phonological innovations and lexical features with Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Eastern and Western Abenaki. The proposed Abenakian subdivision comprises Eastern and Western Abenaki as well as Maliseet-Passamaquoddy; several phonological innovations are shared by the three languages. Goddard notes the similarities shared by the Southern New England languages. Siebert made the first explicit proposal for

1350-410: A preceding /t/ , /s/ , /l/ or /n/ . In some variants of Ojibwe , velars are palatalized before /j/ , but apicals are not. In Indo-Aryan languages , dentals and /r/ are palatalized when occurring in clusters before /j/ , but velars are not. Palatalization sometimes refers to vowel shifts , the fronting of a back vowel or raising of a front vowel . The shifts are sometimes triggered by

1425-478: A proposal made by Siebert, Costa adduces evidence indicating an east-west split with the SNEA subgroup. On both phonological and lexical grounds, a distinction within SNEA can be made between a Western SNEA group consisting of the languages of central and Eastern Long Island, Connecticut and southern Rhode Island: Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Quiripi-Naugatuck, and Unquachog; and an Eastern group consisting of Massachusett and Narragansett. Loup, probably aboriginally found on

1500-537: A variety of dialects, including Iraqi , rural Levantine varieties (e.g. rural Palestinian ), a number of Gulf Arabic dialects, such as Kuwaiti , Qatari , Bahraini , and Emarati , as well as others like Najdi , parts of Oman, and various Bedouin dialects across the Arab World . Examples: Palatalization occurs in the pronunciation of the second person feminine singular pronoun in those dialects. For instance: Classical Arabic عَيْنُكِ 'your eye' (to

1575-428: Is aspirated , but the p in spin is not. In English these two sounds are used in complementary distribution and are not used to differentiate words so they are considered allophones of the same phoneme . In some other languages like Thai and Quechua , the same difference of aspiration or non-aspiration differentiates words and so the two sounds, or phones , are considered to be distinct phonemes. In addition to

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1650-437: Is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness. Languages may be related by convergence through borrowing or by genetic descent, thus languages can change and are also able to cross-relate. Genetic relatedness implies a common origin among languages. Comparative linguists construct language families , reconstruct proto-languages , and analyze

1725-435: Is a form of lenition . However, the lenition is frequently accompanied by a change in place of articulation. Palatalization of velar consonants commonly causes them to front, and apical and coronal consonants are usually raised. In the process, stop consonants are often spirantised except for palatalized labials. Palatalization, as a sound change , is usually triggered only by mid and close (high) front vowels and

1800-401: Is a sub-field of linguistics which studies the sound system of a specific language or set of languages. Whereas phonetics is about the physical production and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages. Phonology studies when sounds are or are not treated as distinct within a language. For example, the p in pin

1875-512: Is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian . Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic dialect , the varieties of a language that are characteristic of particular groups, based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features. This is in contrast to variations based on social factors, which are studied in sociolinguistics , or variations based on time, which are studied in historical linguistics. Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of two local dialects from

1950-422: Is limited due to chance word resemblances and variations between language groups, but a limit of around 10,000 years is often assumed. Several methods are used to date proto-languages, but the process is generally difficult and its results are inherently approximate. In linguistics, a synchronic analysis is one that views linguistic phenomena only at a given time, usually the present, but a synchronic analysis of

2025-441: Is linguistic change in progress. Synchronic and diachronic approaches can reach quite different conclusions. For example, a Germanic strong verb (e.g. English sing ↔ sang ↔ sung ) is irregular when it is viewed synchronically: the native speaker's brain processes them as learned forms, but the derived forms of regular verbs are processed quite differently, by the application of productive rules (for example, adding -ed to

2100-413: Is not conditioned in any way. Palatalization changes place of articulation or manner of articulation of consonants. It may add palatal secondary articulation or change primary articulation from velar to palatal or alveolar , alveolar to postalveolar . It may also cause a consonant to change its manner of articulation from stop to affricate or fricative . The change in the manner of articulation

2175-522: Is not well known when this change occurred or if it is connected to the pronunciation of Qāf ⟨ ق ⟩ as a [ɡ] , but in most of the Arabian peninsula which is the homeland of the Arabic language, the ⟨ ج ⟩ represents a [d͡ʒ] and ⟨ ق ⟩ represents a [ɡ] , except in western and southern Yemen and parts of Oman where ⟨ ج ⟩ represents

2250-423: Is sometimes unconditioned or spontaneous, not triggered by a palatal or palatalized consonant or front vowel. In southwestern Romance , clusters of a voiceless obstruent with /l/ were palatalized once or twice. This first palatalization was unconditioned. It resulted in a cluster with a palatal lateral [ʎ] , a palatal lateral on its own, or a cluster with a palatal approximant [j] . In a second palatalization,

2325-496: Is the study of patterns of word-formation within a language. It attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of speakers. In the context of historical linguistics, formal means of expression change over time. Words as units in the lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology . Along with clitics , words are generally accepted to be the smallest units of syntax ; however, it is clear in most languages that words may be related to one another by rules. These rules are understood by

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2400-581: The /k/ was affricated to [tʃ] or spirantized to [ʃ] . In the Western Romance languages , Latin [kt] was palatalized once or twice. The first palatalization was unconditioned: the /k/ was vocalized to [i̯t] or spirantized to [çt] . In a second palatalization, the /t/ was affricated to [tʃ] : Palatalization may result in a phonemic split , a historical change by which a phoneme becomes two new phonemes over time through palatalization. Old historical splits have frequently drifted since

2475-653: The Gimel represents a [ɡ] , Arabic is considered unique among them where the Gimel was palatalized in most dialects to Jīm ⟨ ج ⟩ an affricate [d͡ʒ] or further into a fricative [ʒ] . While there is variation in Modern Arabic varieties, most of them reflect this palatalized pronunciation except in Egyptian Arabic and a number of Yemeni and Omani dialects, where it is pronounced as [ɡ] . It

2550-499: The Northumbrian dialect and from Old Norse , such as shirt and skirt /ˈʃərt, ˈskərt/ , church and kirk /ˈtʃɜrtʃ, ˈkɜrk/ , ditch and dike /ˈdɪtʃ, ˈdaɪk/ . German only underwent palatalization of /sk/ : cheese /tʃiːz/ and Käse /kɛːzə/ ; lie /ˈlaɪ/ and liegen /ˈliːɡən/ ; lay /ˈleɪ/ and legen /ˈleːɡən/ ; fish and Fisch /fɪʃ/ . The pronunciation of wicca as [ˈwɪkə] with

2625-591: The Roman Empire . Various palatalizations occurred during the historical development of the Romance languages. Some groups of the Romance languages underwent more palatalizations than others. One palatalization affected all groups, some palatalizations affected most groups, and one affected only a few groups. In Gallo-Romance , Vulgar Latin * [ka] became * [tʃa] very early (and then in French become [ʃa] ), with

2700-558: The Uralic languages , another Eurasian language-family for which less early written material exists. Since then, there has been significant comparative linguistic work expanding outside of European languages as well, such as on the Austronesian languages and on various families of Native American languages , among many others. Comparative linguistics became only a part of a more broadly-conceived discipline of historical linguistics. For

2775-400: The comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction . Less-standard techniques, such as mass lexical comparison , are used by some linguists to overcome the limitations of the comparative method, but most linguists regard them as unreliable. The findings of historical linguistics are often used as a basis for hypotheses about the groupings and movements of peoples, particularly in

2850-482: The comparative method , linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In that way, word roots that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family have been found. Although originating in the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done in language families for which little or no early documentation

2925-411: The first palatalization they were fronted to *č *ž *š before the front vowels *e *ē *i *ī. In the second palatalization , the velars changed to *c, *dz or *z, and *s or *š (depending on dialect) before new *ē *ī (either from monophthongization of previous diphthongs or from borrowings). The third palatalization, also called the progressive palatalization, was triggered by a preceding *i or *ī and had

3000-518: The medials /i y/ and shifted to alveolo-palatal series /tɕ tɕʰ ɕ/ . Alveolo-palatal consonants occur in modern Standard Chinese and are written as ⟨ j q x ⟩ in Pinyin . Postal romanization does not show palatalized consonants, reflecting the dialect of the imperial court during the Qing dynasty . For instance, the name of the capital of China was formerly spelled Peking , but

3075-475: The origin of language ) studies Lamarckian acquired characteristics of languages. This perspective explores how languages adapt and change over time in response to cultural, societal, and environmental factors. Language evolution within the framework of historical linguistics is akin to Lamarckism in the sense that linguistic traits acquired during an individual's lifetime can potentially influence subsequent generations of speakers. Historical linguists often use

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3150-514: The reconstructed "palato-velars" of Proto-Indo-European ( *ḱ, *ǵ, *ǵʰ ) were palatalized into sibilants . The language groups with and without palatalization are called satem and centum languages, after the characteristic developments of the PIE word for "hundred": The Slavic languages are known for their tendency towards palatalization. In Proto-Slavic or Common Slavic times the velars *k *g *x experienced three successive palatalizations. In

3225-551: The semivowel [j] . The sound that results from palatalization may vary from language to language. For example, palatalization of [t] may produce [tʲ], [tʃ], [tɕ], [tsʲ], [ts] , etc. A change from [t] to [tʃ] may pass through [tʲ] as an intermediate state, but there is no requirement for that to happen. In the Nupe language , /s/ and /z/ are palatalized both before front vowels and /j/ , while velars are only palatalized before front vowels. In Ciluba , /j/ palatalizes only

3300-537: The Delaware languages and Mahican have been recognized in that Mahican shares innovations with Munsee and Unami, suggesting a subgroup containing Common Delaware and Mahican; this group has been referred to as Delawaran. Efforts to preserve and revive the Eastern Algonquian language and culture are being undertaken by a group called the Medicine Singers (aka 'Eastern Medicine Singers') in cooperation with

3375-413: The Eastern Algonquian area makes interpretation of relations between the languages difficult. As well, diffusion means that some common features may have spread beyond their original starting point through contact, and as a result, a number of characteristics occur in a language assigned to a proposed subgroup, but the same feature is also found in other adjacent languages that are not analyzed as part of

3450-440: The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a genetic subgroup, and the individual Eastern Algonquian languages descend from PEA. By contrast, other Algonquian languages are hypothesized to descend directly from Proto-Algonquian, the ultimate common language ancestor of the Algonquian languages. In historical linguistics in general, the primary criterion for status as a genetic subgroup is that there are shared innovations assigned to

3525-442: The Eastern Algonquian status of the southern New England languages and Powhatan and Carolina Algonquian. Proulx has proposed that the similarities can be explained as the result of diffusion. Goddard has countered that the extent of the similarities would require extensive diffusion very early in the breakup of the Eastern Algonquian languages and that such a position would be difficult in principle to differentiate from analyzing PEA as

3600-490: The Indo-European languages, comparative study is now a highly specialized field. Some scholars have undertaken studies attempting to establish super-families, linking, for example, Indo-European, Uralic, and other families into Nostratic . These attempts have not met with wide acceptance. The information necessary to establish relatedness becomes less available as the time increases. The time-depth of linguistic methods

3675-763: The Romance languages. Palatal consonants in the Romance languages developed from / l / or / n / by palatalization. L and n mouillé have a variety of origins in the Romance languages . In these tables, letters that represent or used to represent / ʎ / or / ɲ / are bolded. In French, /ʎ/ merged with /j/ in pronunciation in the 18th century; in most dialects of Spanish , /ʎ/ has merged with /ʝ/ . Romanian formerly had both /ʎ/ and /ɲ/ , but both have either merged with /j/ or got lost: muliĕr(em) > *muʎere > Romanian muiere /muˈjere/ "woman"; vinĕa > *viɲe > Romanian vie /ˈvi.e/ "vineyard". In certain Indo-European language groups,

3750-484: The basic form of a verb as in walk → walked ). That is an insight of psycholinguistics , which is relevant also for language didactics , both of which are synchronic disciplines. However, a diachronic analysis shows that the strong verb is the remnant of a fully regular system of internal vowel changes, in this case the Indo-European ablaut ; historical linguistics seldom uses the category " irregular verb ". The principal tools of research in diachronic linguistics are

3825-570: The case of poorly attested languages, particularly in southern New England, conclusive classification of written records as representing separate languages or dialects may be ultimately impossible. The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology classifies the Eastern Algonquian languages within their Glottolog database as follows: The languages assigned to the Eastern Algonquian group are hypothesized to descend from an intermediate common ancestor proto-language , referred to as Proto-Eastern Algonquian (PEA). By virtue of their common ancestry,

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3900-412: The cornerstone of comparative linguistics , primarily as a tool for linguistic reconstruction . Scholars were concerned chiefly with establishing language families and reconstructing unrecorded proto-languages , using the comparative method and internal reconstruction . The focus was initially on the well-known Indo-European languages , many of which had long written histories; scholars also studied

3975-441: The development of the modern title page . Often, dating must rely on contextual historical evidence such as inscriptions, or modern technology, such as carbon dating , can be used to ascertain dates of varying accuracy. Also, the work of sociolinguists on linguistic variation has shown synchronic states are not uniform: the speech habits of older and younger speakers differ in ways that point to language change. Synchronic variation

4050-482: The discipline. Primacy is accorded to synchronic linguistics, and diachronic linguistics is defined as the study of successive synchronic stages. Saussure's clear demarcation, however, has had both defenders and critics. In practice, a purely-synchronic linguistics is not possible for any period before the invention of the gramophone , as written records always lag behind speech in reflecting linguistic developments. Written records are difficult to date accurately before

4125-524: The evolution of languages. Historical linguistics involves several key areas of study, including the reconstruction of ancestral languages, the classification of languages into families , ( comparative linguistics ) and the analysis of the cultural and social influences on language development. This field is grounded in the Uniformitarian Principle , which posits that the processes of language change observed today were also at work in

4200-409: The historical changes that have resulted in the documented languages' divergences. Etymology studies the history of words : when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. Words may enter a language in several ways, including being borrowed as loanwords from another language, being derived by combining pre-existing elements in the language, by

4275-542: The languages of the Maritimes and New England are strongly differentiated from those farther south (Mahican, the Delaware languages, Nanticoke, Carolina Algonquian, and Powhatan). At the same time the Southern New England languages (discussed below) share significant similarities, indicating a closer degree of relationship between them. Micmac has innovated significantly relative to other Eastern Algonquian languages, particularly in terms of grammatical features, but it shares

4350-577: The minimal meaningful sounds (the phonemes), phonology studies how sounds alternate, such as the /p/ in English, and topics such as syllable structure, stress , accent , and intonation . Principles of phonology have also been applied to the analysis of sign languages , but the phonological units do not consist of sounds. The principles of phonological analysis can be applied independently of modality because they are designed to serve as general analytical tools, not language-specific ones. Morphology

4425-595: The northern border of the Western SNEA area and to the west of Massachusett, would appear to share features of the Western and Eastern subgroups. The closely related Lenape ( Delaware ) languages Munsee and Unami form a subgroup, with the two languages descending from an immediate ancestor called Common Delaware (CD). Goddard notes a small number of innovations in morphology and phonology that set Munsee and Unami off from their neighbours. As well, similarities between

4500-481: The originally-allophonic palatalization has thus become lexical. A similar change has also happened in Polish and Belarusian . That would also be true about most dialects of Brazilian Portuguese but for the strong phonotactical resistance of its native speakers that turn dental plosives into post-alveolar affricates even in loanwords: McDonald's [mɛkiˈdõnɐwdʒ(is)] . For example, Votic has undergone such

4575-495: The past, unless there is clear evidence to suggest otherwise. Historical linguists aim to describe and explain changes in individual languages, explore the history of speech communities, and study the origins and meanings of words ( etymology ). Modern historical linguistics dates to the late 18th century, having originally grown out of the earlier discipline of philology , the study of ancient texts and documents dating back to antiquity. Initially, historical linguistics served as

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4650-472: The prehistoric period. In practice, however, it is often unclear how to integrate the linguistic evidence with the archaeological or genetic evidence. For example, there are numerous theories concerning the homeland and early movements of the Proto-Indo-Europeans , each with its own interpretation of the archaeological record. Comparative linguistics , originally comparative philology ,

4725-468: The production and performance of music with lyrics written and sung in Eastern Algonquian. The inaugural album by the Medicine Singers is called Daybreak. Historical linguistics Historical linguistics , also known as diachronic linguistics , is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace

4800-467: The proposed subgroup that cannot be assigned to the ultimate ancestor language. A complex series of phonological and morphological innovations define Eastern Algonquian as a subgroup. "There is less diversity, by any measure, among [Eastern Algonquian languages] as a group than among the Algonquian languages as a whole or among the non-Eastern languages." The validity of PEA as a genetic subgroup has been disputed by Pentland and Proulx. Pentland questions

4875-425: The result of historically evolving diachronic changes, the ability to explain linguistic constructions necessitates a focus on diachronic processes. Initially, all of modern linguistics was historical in orientation. Even the study of modern dialects involved looking at their origins. Ferdinand de Saussure 's distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics is fundamental to the present day organization of

4950-446: The rise of a phonological contrast between hard (unpalatalized) and soft (palatalized) consonants. In Kashubian and the neighboring Polish dialects the reflexes of PS velars *k *g were palatalized a fourth time before front vowels, resulting in palatal affricates . In many varieties of Chinese , namely Mandarin , Northern Wu , and several others scattered throughout China, the velar series, /k kʰ x/ , were palatalized before

5025-426: The same root . This is the origin of some alternations in cognate words, such as speak and speech /ˈspiːk, ˈspiːtʃ/ , cold and chill /ˈkoʊld, ˈtʃɪl/ , burrow and bury /ˈbʌroʊ, ˈbɛri/ , dawn and day /ˈdɔːn, ˈdeɪ/ . Here ⟨k⟩ originates from unpalatalized /k/ and ⟨w⟩ from unpalatalized /ɡ/ . Some English words with palatalization have unpalatalized doublets from

5100-424: The same outcomes as the second palatalization. In the process of iotation various sounds were also palatalized in front of the semivowel *j. The results vary by language. In addition, there were further palatalizing sound changes in the various Slavic languages after the break-up of Proto-Slavic. In some of them, including Polish and Russian , most sounds were palatalized by a following front vowel, causing

5175-739: The speaker, and reflect specific patterns in how word formation interacts with speech. In the context of historical linguistics, the means of expression change over time. Syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages . Syntax directly concerns the rules and principles that govern sentence structure in individual languages. Researchers attempt to describe languages in terms of these rules. Many historical linguistics attempt to compare changes in sentence between related languages, or find universal grammar rules that natural languages follow regardless of when and where they are spoken. In terms of evolutionary theory, historical linguistics (as opposed to research into

5250-461: The subgroup in question. Appeal to both genetic subgroups and areal diffusion is required. Goddard notes: "Each Eastern Algonquian language shares features with each of its immediate neighbors, and the resulting continuum is of a sort that is likely to have resulted from the spread of linguistic innovations among forms of speech that were already partly differentiated but still similar enough to make partial bilingualism easy." Proceeding north to south,

5325-424: The subsequent deaffrication and some further developments of the vowel. For instance: Early English borrowings from French show the original affricate, as chamber /ˈtʃeɪmbəɾ/ "(private) room" < Old French chambre /tʃɑ̃mbrə/ < Vulgar Latin camera ; compare French chambre /ʃɑ̃bʁ/ "room". Mouillé ( French pronunciation: [muje] , "moistened") is a term for palatal consonants in

5400-430: The terms conservative and innovative to describe the extent of change within a language variety relative to that of comparable varieties. Conservative languages change less over time when compared to innovative languages. Palatalization (sound change) Palatalization ( / ˌ p æ l ə t əl aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / PAL -ə-təl-eye- ZAY -shən ) is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in

5475-610: The time they occurred and may be independent of current phonetic palatalization. The lenition tendency of palatalized consonants (by assibilation and deaffrication) is important. According to some analyses, the lenition of the palatalized consonant is still a part of the palatalization process itself. In Japanese , allophonic palatalization affected the dental plosives /t/ and /d/ , turning them into alveolo-palatal affricates [tɕ] and [dʑ] before [i] , romanized as ⟨ch⟩ and ⟨j⟩ respectively. Japanese has, however, recently regained phonetic [ti] and [di] from loanwords , and

5550-543: The velar stops /k ɡ/ and the consonant cluster /sk/ were palatalized in certain cases and became the sounds /tʃ/ , /dʒ/ , /j/ , and /ʃ/ . Many words with Anglo-Frisian palatalization survive in Modern English, and the palatalized sounds are typically spelled ⟨ch⟩ , ⟨(d)ge⟩ , ⟨y⟩ , and ⟨sh⟩ in Modern English. Palatalization only occurred in certain environments, and so it did not apply to all words from

5625-587: The very small amount of material available precludes a more definitive conclusion. Costa outlines three sound changes that are innovations uniquely assignable to Proto-Eastern Algonquian, and hence constitute evidence for the subgrouping (the asterisk denotes a reconstructed sound in the proto-language: (a) palatalization of Proto-Eastern-Algonquian (PEA) *k; (b) merger of PEA consonant clusters *hr and *hx; (c) shift of word-final PEA *r to š , all of which occur in Massachusett phonology . As well, refining

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