I. Chitoran
2007
From hiatus to diphthong: the evolution of vowel sequences in RomancePDF
Phonology 24(1):37, 2007
Romance languages show hiatus and diphthongal realisations of inherited iV sequences of rising sonority (eg ia). We study five Romance varieties with different degrees of contrast between the two realisation types: Romanian, with a diphthong–hiatus contrast, Spanish, ...