La loi d’Osthoff et le vocalisme du proto-Roman

الملخص EN

The quantitative changes which grow more and more numerous in popular Latin serve as a proof of the existence of a rythmical factor which shortens the ultra-long syllables created by the dropping of unstressed vocals into canonic duration syllables.

That autocorrection phenomenon of the language, which is a proof of permanency of the long/short syllable opposition, is one of the manifestations of the general phonetics law called Osthoff’s Law.