What are common phonological traits shared by Ibero-Romance languages

Common phonological traits shared by Ibero-Romance languages include the following:

• The presence of two rhotic consonants with specific distribution patterns, which have been analyzed beyond the traditional geminate-to-single contrast view. These rhotics show distinct prosodic weight and play a key role in phonological identity within Ibero-Romance languages.
• Similar vowel and consonant systems with specific features like the preservation or evolution of certain Latin vowel lengths and quality, as well as processes related to obstruent voicing and gemination.
• Shared intonational and phonotactic characteristics that distinguish Ibero-Romance languages from other Romance varieties, including patterns in pitch accent in declaratives and questions.
• The languages form a continuum with overlapping phonological features, exhibiting both shared core traits and local variations that contribute to their structural similarity and mutual intelligibility. These points collectively characterize the phonological structure typical of Ibero-Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, and others in the Iberian Peninsula. ^{6, 7, 11, 14}

References

• Semantics and Micro-Parametric Variation: The Simple Future in Ibero-Romance

• Syllable-Based Phonology of Ibero-Romance Languages

• Resumptive and non-resumptive relative clauses in the Ibero-Romance languages

• On clitic placement and gradience of strength of FP in Western Ibero-Romance

• Intergenerational longitudinal associations between parental reading/musical traits, infants’ auditory processing, and later phonological awareness skills

• Thomas D. Cravens (2002). Comparative historical dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 231.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. xi+163.

• Mirandese in the linguistic Iberian continuum: Phonological data

• A Pilot Study on Phonological Features and Pronunciation Difficulties of Junior High School Students in China

• Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change

• Effects of constituent length and syntactic branching on intonational phrasing in Ibero-Romance

• The intonation of Standard and Northern European Portuguese: A comparative intonational phonology approach

• Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact: Supplementary material: Sound files accompanying spectograms

• Eros, Beauty, and Phon-Aesthetic Judgements of Language Sound. We Like It Flat and Fast, but Not Melodious. Comparing Phonetic and Acoustic Features of 16 European Languages

• The Ibero-Romance rhotics

• An Adaptable Lexical Simplification Architecture for Major Ibero-Romance Languages

• Cross-Regional Patterns of Obstruent Voicing and Gemination: The Case of Roman and Veneto Italian

• The Cartography of Ibero-Romance Agrammatic Deficits

• Considerations to some forms of the verb a fi: sum and sunt

• Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)

• Rule scattering and vowel length in Northern Romance