Robbie van Gerwen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robbie van Gerwen is involved.
Articles
2009 Romance lenition: Towards a formal account of a contrast maintaining
phonetically motivated sound change Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 111–126 | Article
This paper proposes an OT account of diachronic and synchronic Romance lenition
based on the theory of Comparative Markedness. The analysis, contrary to previous
analyses, allows for a straightforward description of synchronic allophonic lenition
processes where voicing and spirantization take… read more
2006 Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. 77–96 | Article