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Abstract
This article analyzes cases of labial palatalization wherein a labial shifts its major place of articulation to a palatal, as in Romanian and Tswana. These cases are situated within a typological study of palatalization, and it is argued, based on diachronic evidence, that they arose not through direct palatalization of the labial, but through a series of sound changes that affected a palatal glide following the labial. An articulatory account of palatalization is argued to offer the best explanation for the rarity of such cases of labial palatalization.
Keywords:: articulatory phonetics; palatalization; phonology; Polish; Romanian; sound change; Tswana
Received: 2009-08-05
Revised: 2010-08-18
Published Online: 2010-11-04
Published in Print: 2010-October
©Walter de Gruyter
