Gallo-Romance phonology

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Gallo-Romance phonology is the sound system characteristic of the Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages, encompassing their distinctive vowel, consonant, and prosodic developments from Latin.

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Gallo-Romance phonology canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance phonology
historical phonology
phonological system
appliesTo Gallo-Romance languages NERFINISHED
characteristicOf Franco-Provençal NERFINISHED
Gallo language NERFINISHED
Lorrain dialects
Modern French NERFINISHED
Norman language NERFINISHED
Old French NERFINISHED
Old Occitan NERFINISHED
Picard language NERFINISHED
Walloon language NERFINISHED
developedFrom Proto-Romance phonology NERFINISHED
Vulgar Latin phonology
hasFeature assibilation of /t/ and /d/ before front vowels in some varieties
complex syllable-final consonant clusters in Old French
complex system of oral vowels
contrast between fortis and lenis consonants in some dialects
contrast between open and close mid vowels
development of affricates from palatalized velars
development of liaison phenomena in French
development of uvular /ʁ/ in many French varieties
diphthongization of Latin /e/ and /o/ in stressed open syllables
diphthongization of stressed mid vowels in open syllables
extensive sandhi phenomena in connected speech
extensive vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
lenition of intervocalic stops
loss of Latin quantity distinction in vowels
loss of many final vowels
loss of most final consonants in French
merger of several Latin consonant phonemes
nasalization of vowels before nasal consonants
palatal lateral and palatal nasal consonants
palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before /e i/
palatalization of velar consonants before front vowels
phonemic nasal vowels in French
prosodic stress on the penultimate or final syllable in early stages
reduction of unstressed vowels to schwa in French
shift of stress patterns during the evolution to Modern French
spirantization of intervocalic stops
stress-based vowel quality alternations
voicing of intervocalic voiceless stops
influenced phonology of English loanwords from French
phonology of neighboring Oïl and Oc dialects
relatedTo Italo-Western Romance phonology
studiedIn Romance comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
subfieldOf Romance linguistics NERFINISHED

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Cellese hasLinguisticFeature Gallo-Romance phonology
Patouès hasLinguisticFeature Gallo-Romance phonology