W. Leo Wetzels

List of John Benjamins publications in which W. Leo Wetzels is involved.

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Loan Phonology

Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels

For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 307] 2009. vii, 273 pp. | open access

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006

Edited by Danièle Torck and W. Leo Wetzels

The annual conference series ‘Going Romance’ has developed into a major European discussion forum where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages in particular are put in an interactive perspective, giving room to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 303] 2009. viii, 262 pp.

Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory

Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels

There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels 2009 Loan phonology: Issues and controversies Loan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Wetzels, W. Leo 2009 Nasal harmony and the representation of nasality in Maxacalí: Evidence from Portuguese loans Loan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 241–270 | Article

Popovich (1971) claimed that nasality in Maxacalí is contrastive for both consonants and vowels. Rodrigues (1980) proposes to eliminate nasality entirely from the set of phonological features of Maxacalí and to represent all voiced, prenasalized and nasal consonants as voiced consonants in the… read more

Wetzels, W. Leo 2002 On the relation between quantity-sensitive stress and distinctive vowel length: The history of a principle and its relevance for Romance Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Wiltshire, Caroline R. and Joaquim Camps (eds.), pp. 219–234 | Article

Hinskens, Frans, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels 1997 Balancing Data and Theory in the Study of Phonological Variation and Change Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 1–33 | Article

Wetzels, W. Leo 1991 Contrastive and Allophonic Properties of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988, Wanner, Dieter and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article

Wetzels, W. Leo 1984 Paradigm leveling in Latin and old Franch: A critical view of rule inversion Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982, Baldi, Philip (ed.), pp. 579–600 | Article