- An almost identical argument for the υ > ü change is advanced by Heinrich Lausberg, who, incidentally, has arrived at many conclusions very similar to those presented in the work of Haudricourt and Juilland. See H. Lausberg, “Zum romanischen Vokalismus”, “Zum französischen Vokalismus,” Romanische Forschungen, LX (1947) 295–315, Die Mundart Südlukaniens, Beiheft zur ZRPh, XC, 1939, especially p. 181 ff.
- Cf. R. Jakobson, ‘Sur la Théorie des affinités phonologiques entre les langues,’ now in N. S. Trubetzkoy, Principes de Phonologie, Paris, 1949.
- The features which according to von Wartburg distinguish Eastern and Western Romance are retention of Latin unvoiced intervocalic occlusives in Eastern Romance and retention of final -s in Western Romance. The latter retention is supposedly due to the urban Western tendencies, but I hope to show in a future publication that this retention of final -s in Western Romance can be explained structurally by the reduction of vowel phonemes in the final syllable which in turn is due to the stronger stress accent (thus association of retention of -s with voicing of intervocalic occlusives).
- See M. A. Pei, The Language of the Eighth Century Texts in Northern France, New York, 1932, 98–99, for examples of the confusion of t and k in 8th Century Northern French late Latin documents, and for a short bibliography of instances of a t and k confusion in earlier texts or inscriptions.
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