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Phonology

Vowels

Stolen from Wikipedia:

Table of Old French outcomes of Latin vowels
Letter Classical
Latin
Vulgar
Latin
Proto
Western
Romance
Early Old French
(through early 12th c.)
Later Old French
(from late 12th c.)
closed open closed open
Short A /a/ /a/ a /a/ e, ie /æ, iə/ a /a/ e, ie /ɛ, jɛ/
Long A /aː/
AE /ai/ /ɛ/ e /ɛ/ ie /iə/ e /ɛ/ ie /jɛ/
Short E /e/
OE /oi/ /e/ /e/ e /e/ ei /ei/ oi /oi/ > /wɛ/
Long E /eː/
Short I /i/ /ɪ/
Short Y /y/
Long I /iː/ /i/ i /i/
Long Y /yː/
Short O /o/ /ɔ/ o /ɔ/ uo /uə/ o /ɔ/ ue /wɛ/ > /ø/
Long O /oː/ /o/ /o/ o /o/ ou /ou/ o(u) /u/ eu /eu/ > /ø/
Short U /u/ /ʊ/
Long U /uː/ /u/ u /y/
AU /aw/ /aw/ o /ɔ/

Chronology of Consonant related sound changes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_French#From_Vulgar_Latin_through_to_Proto-Western-Romance

  • sC- initial clusters become isC- (and thus ésC)
  • Loss of final -m except in monosyllables
  • Loss of H
  • ns > s
  • rs > ss sometime, rs othertimes
  • -er > -re; -or > -ro
  • -cəl-, -cər-, -gəl- and -gər- > cl, cr, gl, gr
  • kj > kkj
  • k + e,i etc > kj
  • g + e,i etc > gj
  • dj, (prior dj, gj, g+e/i >) gj > j

(Gallo-Ibero-Romance)

  • kj, tj > tsj ⟨c, z⟩
  • kkj > ttsj
  • kt > jt ⟨-it⟩
  • ks > js ⟨-is⟩
  • (Opt: open+stressed ɛ, ɔ > ie, uo (> ue in Fr/Sp))
  • nox > nocte > nojte > nuojte > nuite in French
  • First lenition: (intervocalic, and vCr) voiced plosives + unvoiced fricatives > v ð j
  • tsj > dzj (not ttsj)
  • pl > bl
  • Final t/d following a vowel lost?
  • nj, jn, jl, gl (from gn, ngj, gl, kl) > nj, lj
  • unstressed interior vowels lost except pretonic /a/; happened at same time as first lenition, thus manica > manche but granica > grange