The sounds of Latin: a descriptive and historical phonology

ablaut ablaut grades alphabet analogy anaptyxis antevocalic aspirate assimilation became bilabial borrowed CLLat compensatory lengthening compounds consonantal dental developed dialects diphthong dissimilation dzdh earlier English Exercise fc-sound Fest final syllables following words forms German grammarians Grassmann's Law Greek Indo-European influence initial vowel inscriptions intervocalic Italic labial languages Late Latin later Latin accent lengthening liquid Lith LLat Long consonants long vowels lost medial nasal nasalized vowel non-aspirate non-initial syllables oChSl oLat open syllables original Oscan penult phonetic pLat Plautus position Praeneste preceding vowel Prisc Pron pronounced pronunciation Quint R. S. Conway recomposition rhotacism Roman root Sandhi semivowel short vowel shortened sibilant sound spelling spirant Sturtevant suffix syncope transliterated Umbrian unaccented velar Verg Vict voiced voiceless stop weakening whence writing