New answers tagged ecclesiastical-latin
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Is it possible that elision is sometimes just attraction?
I think hardly anyone uses reconstructed Classical Latin pronunciation for plainchant, so I'm not sure you need the "even" in "even if only in ecclesiastical or medieval Latin".
It ...
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Is it possible that elision is sometimes just attraction?
The main modern source I can think of on this topic is Allen's Vox Latina chapter 4, which takes most of its evidence from Sturtevant's Elision and Hiatus in Latin Prose and Verse, so that's what this ...
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