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104 133 Stausland Johnsen, Sverre. 2009. The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic. In S. W. Jamison, H. C. Melchert and B. Vine (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual
Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age (LLDB), which will be used in this chapter as a main source of in- formation. 15 The Visigoth Slates display, for instance, a clear tendency towards the elimination of the labial trait from the labio-velar
, in general, to the partial merger of the Classical Latin bilabial voiced stop /b/ and the labiovelar semivowel /w/ into a bilabial fricative [β], which are represented in Latin script either with < b > or < v >. 3 This hypothesis seems to be
UR is admitted) is the segment commonly attested in speech, namely, the labiovelar approximant /w/, whereas from the second perspective, the UR is the alveolar lateral consonant /l/. The argument to sustain the first perspective is quite obvious even
] of the perfective tenses reinforced and ended up becoming a labiovelar obstruent: w > g w > g . On the other hand, Wheeler (2011 , 195–198) follows Ronjat’s (1937, §570) proposal and argues that the velar consonant spread analogically from a
