PERSISTENCE OF THE LATIN ACCENT IN THE NOMINAL ...

Learnability of the Latin Accent.............................................................................................98
The Transition from Classical Latin to Late Latin .................................................................99
3 FROM QUANTITY SENSITIVE TO STRESS ACCENT..................................................101
Chronology of Latin .............................................................................................................101
Stress Accent as Catalyst of Phonological Change ..............................................................103
Ambisyllabification and Mora Sharing .........................................................................119
Stop + liquid clusters in Romance.................................................................................123
Weakening of Consonants in Coda Position .................................................................125
Stop + liquid clusters in Romance.................................................................................127
Apocope.........................................................................................................................129
Hiatus and Onset Glides ................................................................................................130
Motivation for Vowel Loss ...........................................................................................133
4 ACCENTUAL PATTERNS IN THE NOMINAL SYSTEM OF LATIN: OUTCOMES
OF THE FIRST DECLENSION ..........................................................................................139
OT Constraints and the Latin Accent ...................................................................................139
The Latin Nominal System...................................................................................................141
Construction of the Data Set.................................................................................................145
An Overview of the First Declension ...................................................................................147
Two-Syllable Nouns .............................................................................................................147
Three-syllable Nouns............................................................................................................164
First Declension Trisyllables with Penultimate Accent ................................................165
First Declensions Trisyllables with Antepenultimate Accent .......................................183
Four-syllable Nouns..............................................................................................................194
Four-syllable Nouns with Penultimate Accent..............................................................195
Four-syllable Nouns with Antepenultimate Accent ......................................................213
Five-syllable Nouns..............................................................................................................221
Five-syllable Nouns with Penultimate Accent ..............................................................221
Five-syllable Nouns with Antepenultimate Accent.......................................................227
Summary of Prosodic Patterns in Nouns from the First Declension....................................230
5 VOWEL LOSS AND THE RISE OF ULTIMATE ACCENT IN IBERO-ROMANCE.....233
Synchronic and Diachronic Vowel Reduction .....................................................................233
Second/Fourth Declension Nouns ........................................................................................234
Third Declension Nouns.......................................................................................................235
Two-syllable Nouns..............................................................................................................237
Second and Fourth Declension Disyllables with Penultimate Accent ..........................238
Third Declension Disyllables with Penultimate Accent................................................250
Three-syllable Nouns............................................................................................................259
Trisyllables with Penultimate Accent............................................................................259
Trisyllables with accent on a penultimate HC type syllable ..................................261
Trisyllables with penultimate accent on HV type syllable.....................................272
Trisyllables with Antepenultimate Accent ....................................................................280
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