The sounds of Latin: a descriptive and historical phonology

ablaut ablaut grades Ablaut Series alphabet analogy anaptyxis antevocalic aspirate assimilation Balto-Slav borrowed ciXat clLat compensatory lengthening consonant consonantal dental developed dialects diphthongs dissimilation earlier English Exercise Fest final syllables following words forms Germanic grammarians Grassmann's Law Greek Indo-European influence initial syllable initial vowel inscriptions intervocalic Italic labial languages Late Latin later Latin accent lengthening linguistic liquid Lith lLat Long consonants long diphthongs long vowels lost medial nasal non-initial syllables normal oChSl oLat open syllables original Oscan palatal vowels penult phonetic pLat Plautus position Praen preceding vowel Prise pronounced pronunciation Quint R. S. Conway recomposition regularly rhotacism Roman root Sandhi semivowel short vowel shortened sibilant sound spirant Sturtevant suffix syncope Umbrian velar Verg Vict voiced voiceless stop whence writing