Análise fonética e fonolóxica dos documentos inéditos do mosteiro de Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil (séc. xv)

Abstract

This study builds on the editing work undertaken in my Dissertation, which includes the116 unpublished documents of the monastery of Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil, drafted during the 15thcentury by 12 different notaries and scribes. The goal of this article is to present a description of themost relevant phonetic and phonological features taking the interpretation of graphic elements presentin the manuscripts as a base. The focus shall be on cases in which some phonetic or phonologicalevolution is happening in the Romance language: the confluence of /?/ and /b/ in the same bilabialphoneme, the sibilant system, the evolution of nasal vowels resulting from the dropping of the Latininter-vowel [n] and the evolution of the sequences [kwa] and [gwa]