Os efeitos da estrutura moraica do latim em três línguas românicas: italiano, português e espanhol

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Evellyne Patrícia Figueiredo de Sousa
• Orientador(a): Bisol, Leda
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: LINGUÍSTICA; LATIM - GRAMÁTICA; LINGUÍSTICA LATINA; LINGUÍSTICA ITALIANA; LINGUÍSTICA ESPANHOLA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4107

This study aims at investigating the evolution of moraic structure from Latin to some neo-Romance languages, namely Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Latin, which presents vocalic and consonantal quantitative distinction, has the following syllable patterns: (i) light syllable, which contains a single mora (e. le. men. tum); (ii) heavy syllable, which contains two moras (bul. ga); (iii) superheavy syllable, which contains three moras according to what we propose (paul. lum). The quantitative distiction among vowels was lost in the evolution to Romance, and moraic structure exerted influence during the evolution to neo-Romance languages. Based on such information and on Hayes’ Moraic Theory (1989), we intend to investigate the effects of such change in the mentioned languages by analysing related phonological processes, such as gemination, diphthongization, monophthongation, and palatalization. Moraic Theory allows us to identify the way moraic structures are attributed to languages and also allows us to determine which priciples operate in these languages. Hayes (1989) defines a mora as a weight unit at the prosodic tier and represents the contrast between long syllables and short syllables. Also, a mora counts as a phonological position (a long segment is represented as being doubly linked). We propose that the choices made in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish to deal with moraic structure in Latin have already been available in vulgar Latin, and, according to the option made, principles such as Stray Erasure and Parasitic Delinking, which are related to Prosodic Licensing, have more or less applicability.