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Despite the highly marked consonant clusters attested in present-day French (Dell 1995), French's early history exhibited an evolutionary trend towards syllable-geometric simplification as regards the sonority contour of licensed syllable- and word-internal clusters. In this diachronic study, I analyze the evolution of the Latin phonological system, exhibiting relatively marked clusters, into the more prohibitive phonology of later Old French, which essentially banned all codas (Gess 1999) and allowed only the least marked onset clusters. This diachronic progression towards unmarked syllable structure retracts during Middle French, when previously banned clusters begin to resurface. In this dissertation, I present a unified optimality-theoretic analysis of a diverse range of changes within onset and syllable-contact clusters from early French diachrony, drawing on implicational structural relationships between margin segments in the syllable and phonological word as formalized in the Split Margin Approach to the Syllable (Baertsch 2002; Baertsch & Davis 2003 and later work). This dissertation formalizes systemic connections among numerous diachronic developments affecting consonant

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Author

Francisco Montano

Publisher

Indiana University

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction