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Three main processes define this period: | Three main processes define this period: | ||
* Loss of vowel length distinctions | * Loss of vowel length distinctions | ||
* Loss of nasalisation in vowels | * Loss of nasalisation in vowels (and nasals before fricatives) | ||
* Reanalysis of inflectional endings | * Reanalysis of inflectional endings | ||
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===Old Ceuja=== | ===Old Ceuja=== | ||
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Old Ceuja is characterised by: | |||
* an initial wave of palatalisation for velars and dentals caused by front vowels and /j/ | |||
* a reduction of consonant clusters involving plosives, resulting in a second wave of palatalisation | |||
* Romance vowel metaphony (cf Germanic umlaut) caused by the second wave of palatalisation | |||
* lenition of some intervocalic plosives | |||
====Palatalisation of velars and dentals==== | |||
Palatalisation of velars occurred when velars came before front vowels, producing *tsj (c) and *dj (j), and palatalisation of /t/ occurred when it was found before *-jV-, as in Vulgar Latin, producing *tś as well. | |||
In addition, PGmc *þ merged into *tś (via laminalisation). | |||
Examples: [[wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skēpą | *skēpą]] → *escɛ́pa, *estsjɛ́pa | |||
====Consonant cluster reduction==== | |||
===Middle Ceuja=== | ===Middle Ceuja=== | ||
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The main difference in orthography with Spanish is the use of ⟨y⟩ to represent tonic /i/. For example, ⟨týe⟩ instead of *⟨tíe⟩, but ⟨cieba⟩ instead of *⟨cyeba⟩. | The main difference in orthography with Spanish is the use of ⟨y⟩ to represent tonic /i/. For example, ⟨týe⟩ instead of *⟨tíe⟩, but ⟨cieba⟩ instead of *⟨cyeba⟩. | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
<!-- þahtaz -> cecha, "thought" +o -> cecho, "thinking" ~= gerundive, resulting in "I want to cecho" --> | |||