A little hard core for me, but of interest to some readers. Roger Wright's Latin vulgaire--latin tardif VIII: actes du VIIIe Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif reviewed by Rolando Ferri at the Università di Pisa:
Béla Adamik ("Remarks on the Changes of
Consonantism in Pannonian Latinity as Evidenced by the Inscriptions",
103) shows that consonant change in Pannonian Latin was in step with
contemporary trends in other Latin-speaking areas until the perhaps
modest-sized Romanized population was either swallowed or forced to
move out by mass migrations from East. In this context, the paper is
also notable for some persuasive interpretations of substandard
inscriptions, and particularly of the names TEOTIGINOS < THEOTECNOS,
and IODOROS < DIODOROS, exhibiting respectively yodisation of 'e' in
hiatus and the reduction of [dy]+ vowel> [y]+ vowel.
Full review here.
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