Diacronía de los resultados secundarios del diptongo /ue/ en judeoespañol

Abstract

AbstractJudeo-Spanish presents some surprising results as regards the secondary evolution of the diphthong /ˈue/. Contrary to Spanishjueves‘Thursday’,tuerto‘one-eyed’,sueño‘dream’,nuera‘daughter-in-law’, Judeo-Spanish hasĵugüeves,tugüerto,(e)sfueño, andelmuera. That is, /ˈue/ has evolved either into /u.ˈgue/, it has developed a fricative before the diphthong (/ˈsue/ > /s.ˈfue/), or labialized the previous nasal (/ˈnue/ > /ˈmue/).In this study we present an explanation for this phenomenon that combines the regular Ibero-Romance phonic evolution and some language-specific features of the evolution of Judeo-Spanish, without an explicit appeal to exceptional solutions. Our hypothesis is based on the realization of the sequence /ˈue/ as a hiatus (ĵu.e.ves,tu.er.to,su.e.ño,nu.e.ra) which eventually developed an epenthetic consonant. This epenthesis was velar (ĵugueves,tuguerto), the latter case also involving further vowel insertion in agreement with the historical phonetics of Judeo-Spanish (ĵugüeves,tugüerto). Examples with labial fricatives or nasals preceding the diphthong have followed this evolution and then lost the pretonic vowel, giving way to a consonantal cluster in which the second consonant is partially assimilated to the first (sueño> *s(u)güeño>sfueñooresfueño;nuera>n(u)güera> *enmuera>elmuera,ermuera>muera).