The sound structure of modern Irish / by Raymond Hickey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biographical note: Raymond Hickey, Essen University, Germany.

Main description: The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains essential information about the phonology of modern Irish along with many analyses of general linguistic issues. A major focus of the book is on a typological comparison between Irish and a number of other languages which have functionalised such phenomena as palatalisation and/or initial mutation.

I Introduction; 1. Historical background; 1.1. Ogam (400-600); 1.2. Old Irish (600-900); 1.3. Middle Irish (900-1200); 1.4. Classical Modern Irish (1200-1600); 1.5. Early Modern Irish (1600-1900); 1.6. Modern Irish (1900- ); 1.6.1. Irish in the twentieth-first century; 2. Dialects of Irish today; 2.1. Research on Irish dialects; 2.2. Linguistic research on Irish; 2.2.1. Individual dialect monographs; 2.2.2. Research on Irish phonology; 2.3. Main phonetic differences between dialects; 2.4. Data for former dialect areas; 2.5. Written documentation of Irish dialects.

II The phonological framework1. Sound inventory; 1.1. The palatal / non-palatal distinction; 1.1.1. Primary and secondary palatals; 1.1.2. How phonological contrasts are realised; 1.1.3. How contrasts are realised: polarity and polarity reversal; 1.2. Palatality and palatalisation; 1.3. Status of the feature [palatal]; 1.4. Independent and dependent segments; 1.5. Pairwise notation; 1.6. Lexical sets for Modern Irish; 1.7. The consonant system; 1.7.1. Stops; 1.7.2. Fricatives; 1.7.3. Shifts in articulation; 1.8. The sonorant system; 1.8.1. Nasals; 1.8.2. Laterals; 1.8.3. R-sounds.

1.8.4. Three-way distinctions among sonorants1.8.5. Polarised and non-polarised sonorants; 1.8.6. Historical development; 1.8.7. The position of the orthography; 1.8.8. Possible phonological analyses; 1.8.9. Abstract phonological derivations; 1.8.10. Lexical tagging; 1.8.11. Vowel tagging and assimilation; 1.8.12. Parallels in other languages; 1.9. The vowel system; 1.9.1. Long vowels; 1.9.2. Relative status of vowels; 1.9.3. Weighting of consonants and vowels; 1.9.4. Vowel gradation; 1.9.5. Short vowels; 1.9.6. Unstressed vowels; 1.9.7. Diphthongs; 1.9.8. Glides.

1.9.9. Historical developments2. Phonotactics; 2.1. Permissible clusters; 2.2. Cluster simplification; 2.3. Sonorant shift; 2.4. Interpretation of [h]; 2.5. Vowel phonotactics; 2.6. Prefixed consonants; 2.7. Minor processes; 2.7.1. Internal lenition and voicing; 2.7.2. Final devoicing; 2.7.3. Assibilation of glottal fricatives; 2.7.4. Depalatalisation of /r""/; 2.7.5. Assimilation across word boundaries; 2.7.6. F in Irish; 2.7.7. Elision phenomena; 2.7.8. Articulatory shifts; 2.8. Epenthesis; 2.8.1. Motivation for epenthesis; 2.8.2. Epenthesis and syncope; 2.8.3. Epenthesis and areality.

2.8.4. Epenthesis in Southern Irish2.8.5. Epenthesis and other processes; 2.8.6. Consonant epenthesis; 2.9. Metathesis; 2.9.1. Delimiting metathesis; 2.9.2. Metathesis and other processes; 2.9.3. The domain of metathesis; 2.9.4. Possible motivation for metathesis; 2.9.5. Metathesis and syllable structure; 2.9.6. Metathesis across syllable boundaries; 2.9.7. More on syllable structure; 2.9.8. Double, split-level and distant metathesis; 2.9.9. Metathesis and grammatical information; 2.9.10. Metathesis with loanwords; 2.9.11. Exceptions to metathesis; 2.9.12. Base form and metathesis.

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