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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2009  
         
  Article:   SYSTÈME VOCALIQUE ET SÉMIOLOGIE FINALE DU NOMBRE EN ROUMAIN / THE VOWEL SYSTEM AND THE FINALE SEMIOLOGY OF NUMBERS IN ROMANIAN.

Authors:  ROMANA TIMOC-BARDY. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  An examination of vowel contrasts in the final expression of substantival number indicates that the vowels carring function are arranged in a hierarchical sequence, revealing the type of plurality (internal or external), gender (major, minor) and its interferences with the number. The identification of this hierarchy allows us to understand better certain diachronic changes (such as -ure >- uri), for which unsatisfactory phonetic explanations have been proposed.

Keywords: operative time, psychomechanics of language, vowel hierarchy, internal plurality, external plurality, interference of gender and number 		 
         
     
         
         
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