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E 4.2.2: Phonology: Modern Irish

8381.
Blankenhorn (V. S.): Intonation in Connemara Irish: a preliminary study of kinetic glides.
In Papers in Celtic phonology (1979), pp. 1–26.
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1223.
Isaac (G. R.): Issues in the reconstruction and analysis of Insular Celtic syntax and phonology.
In Ériu 44 (1993), pp. 1–32.
Incl. discussion of univerbation, tmesis and the PC system of stops.
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10281.
Cyran (Eugeniusz): Licensing properties of nuclei and principle ranking in Irish.
In TLR 13 (1996), pp. 1–31.
Presents a unified account of vowel lengthening and vowel ‘epenthesis’ in Munster Irish within the framework of Government Phonology.
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16785.
Hickey (Raymond): Possible phonological parallels between Irish and English.
In EWW 7/1 (1986), pp. 1–21.
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4912.
Noyer (Rolf): Secondary epenthesis and stress in Munster Irish.
In PHCC 10 (1993), pp. 1–23.
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3274.
Fulk (R. D.): The Celtic sonorants.
In BBCS 29/1 (Nov., 1980), pp. 1–16.
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3417.
O’Rahilly (Cecile): Three notes: 2. doiligh, doilghe.
In Celtica 14 (1981), pp. 2–4.
Phonological convergence of adjective (doiligh) and abstract noun (doilghe).
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17704.
Thrift (Erica): A reanalysis of Munster Irish stress.
In CWPL 19 (Winter, 1997), pp. 9–22.
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17645.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Geminates and interonset government in Irish.
In Focus on language (1994), pp. 9–25.
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7459.
Stockman (Gearóid): Giorrú gutaí fada aiceannta i nGaeilge Chúige Uladh.
In Fs. de Bhaldraithe (1986), pp. 11–18.
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2583.
Bondaruk (Anna): The inventory of nuclear tones in Connemara Irish.
In JCeltL 8 (Nov., 2004), pp. 15–47.
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7460.
Ó Murchú (Máirtín): R caol i dtús focal: blúire canúineolaíochta.
In Fs. de Bhaldraithe (1986), pp. 19–26.
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14019.
Bennett (Ryan), Elfner (Emily), McCloskey (James): Pronouns and prosody in Irish.
In 14th ICCS, Maynooth 2011 (2015), pp. 19–74.
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17646.
Bondaruk (Anna): Irish as a pitch accent language (Connemara dialect).
In Focus on language (1994), pp. 27–48.
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7461.
Mac Eoin (Gearóid): Treise sa Ghaeilge agus sa Bhéarla.
In Fs. de Bhaldraithe (1986), pp. 27–35.
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8383.
McBrearty (Jane Roscoe): Initial mutation in a generative phonology of modern Irish.
In Papers in Celtic phonology (1979), pp. 39–53.
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8534.
Lindeman (Fredrik Otto): A phonological note on OIr. -tuinmell.
In Celtica 26 (2010), pp. 44–47.
ad R. Thurneysen, in ZCP 16 (1927), p. 275 [7. Zu air. -tuinmell]; argues it may reflect Class. OIr. *-toínmell.
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8554.
Hickey (Raymond): Historical developments and synchronic states: cases from Irish phonology.
In FoLH 15/1-2 (1994), pp. 47–69.
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18322.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Bridging and the phonology-morphology interface.
In Roczniki Humanistyczne 56/5 (2008), pp. 49–62.
§3. Bridging in Connemara Irish.
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12871.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Syllabic consonants in Slavic and Celtic languages: the mechanism of element extension.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 4 (2010), pp. 53–65.
Refers to Irish in particular.
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8384.
Ní Chasaide (Ailbhe): Laterals of Gaoth Dobhair Irish and of Hiberno-English.
In Papers in Celtic phonology (1979), pp. 54–78.
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10100.
Carnie (Andrew): A domain based phonology: the evidence from Modern Irish.
In LCJL 3 (1991), pp. 59–76.
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2069.
McCone (Kim): An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a réamhstair.
In Stair na Gaeilge (1994), pp. 61–219.
Italian translation: L’irlandese antico e la sua preistoria / a cura di Elisa Roma. Numero speciale di Studi Celtici. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005.
Roma (Elisa) (trans.)
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8352.
Wigger (Arndt): Towards a generative phonology of the modern Irish noun.
In Ling 11/109 (Jan., 1973), pp. 61–77.
Focuses on phonological processes peculiar to the noun in Connemara Irish.
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17647.
Cyran (Eugeniusz): Super-heavy rhymes in modern Irish.
In Focus on language (1994), pp. 63–81.
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2640.
de Bernardo (Patrizia): Einige Bemerkungen über das Mac Neillsche Gesetz.
In ZCP 40 (1984), pp. 64–73.
ad E. P. Hamp, in Ériu 25 (1974), pp. 172-180. Discusses its phonological background, and the exceptional treatment of the resonant r.
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10955.
Espesser (Robert), Ní Chiosáin (Máire), Welby (Pauline): Is the syllabification of Irish a typological exception? An experimental study.
In Speech communication 54 (2012), pp. 68–91.
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17643.
Cyran (Eugeniusz): Parametric occurrence of elements in phonological systems.
In Fs. Gussman (1996), pp. 75–98.
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17667.
Green (Anthony Dubach): Stress placement in Munster Irish.
In CLS 32, pt. 1 (1996), pp. 77–91.
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8385.
Ó Baoill (Dónall P.): Vowel lengthening before certain non-obstruents in Q-Celtic.
In Papers in Celtic phonology (1979), pp. 79–107.
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4637.
Ó Riain (Gordon): The consonant cluster -rdh-.
In Éigse 36 (2008), pp. 82–86.
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4638.
Ó Sé (Diarmuid): Word stress in Munster Irish.
In Éigse 36 (2008), pp. 87–112.
Reviews the previous scholarly literature on the subject.
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10952.
Ní Chiosáin (Máire): Irish palatalisation and the representation of place features.
In Phonology 11 (1994), pp. 89–106.
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12873.
Bondaruk (Anna): Obligatory control in Irish and Polish: a reappraisal.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 4 (2010), pp. 89–102.
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4694.
Ó Cuív (Brian): Vowel hiatus in Early Modern Irish.
In Celtic language, Celtic culture [Fs. Hamp 1] (1990), pp. 96–107.
Discusses evidence from Bardic sources relating to vowel hiatus in the period 1200–1650.
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1965.
Ó Catháin (Brian): Nóta ar r in áit n i nGaeilge Árann.
In Éigse 27 (1993), pp. 98–100.
ad S. Ó Murchú, in Éigse 25 (1991), pp. 95-101. H. Pedersen collected exx. of /r/ for /n/ after consonants in 1895–96.
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12661.
Cyran (Eugeniusz), Szymanek (Bogdan): Phonological and morphological functions of palatalisation in Irish and Polish.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 3 (2010), pp. 99–133.
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8386.
Ó Cuív (Brian): Metrics and Irish phonology.
In Papers in Celtic phonology (1979), pp. 108–123.
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315.
Breatnach (R. A.): ia < ē in early modern Irish loan-words.
In Celtica 13 (1980), pp. 109–114.
Discusses a number of words borrowed mostly from Middle English, in particular fiabhras, of which it is argued that it derives from MEngl. pl. fēv(e)res.
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17557.
Doherty (Cathal): Munster Irish stress.
In WCCFL 10 (1992), pp. 115–126.
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8932.
Ó Sé (Diarmuid): Cloich, cruaich and similar forms in the Munster dialect.
In Éigse 37 (2010), pp. 123–133.
On the pronunciaton of the dative form of the ā-stem nouns cloch, cruach, luch.
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2774.
Ó Cuív (Brian): Miscellanea: 5. Ad Éigse xviii. 285-7.
In Celtica 18 (1986), pp. 123–124.
On the pronunciation of the oblique form of cos in de chois ‘by foot’ in the verse of Dáibhí Ó Bruadair; cf. B. Ó Cuív, in Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 285-287.
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1875.
Ó Murchú (Séamas): Nóta ar [o] agus [u] i nGaeilge an Iarthair.
In Éigse 22 (1987), pp. 124–125.
ad R. Hickey, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 214-226. On the phonemic contrast between [o] and [u].
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4656.
Greene (David): The growth of palatalization in Irish.
In TPhS 72/1 (Nov., 1973), pp. 127–136.
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2556.
Carnie (Andrew): A note on diphthongization before tense sonorants in Irish: an articulatory explanation.
In JCeltL 7 (Dec., 2002), pp. 129–148.
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5646.
Ó Baoill (Dónall P.): Forbairt na ngutaí i nGaeilge Uladh.
In Ildánach ildírech [Fs. Mac Cana] (1999), pp. 131–156.
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12662.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Phonological function of noise in Irish and Ukrainian turbulent sounds.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 3 (2010), pp. 135–155.
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9536.
Doherty (Cathal): The pronominal augment in Irish identificational sentences.
In Dán do oide [Ó Cléirigh essays] (1997), pp. 135–147.
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1763.
Ó Dochartaigh (Cathair): Some anomalous vowels.
In Éigse 19/1 (1982), pp. 137–144.
Studies the phonology of borrowings from Hiberno-English into Irish: (a) Omeath póiríní and meascán; (b) Inishowen [yː] (fraoch, giumhas, síog, síoghaidhe).
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1764.
McKenna (Malachy): Gutaí fada neamhaiceanta in Oirdheisceart Uladh.
In Éigse 19/1 (1982), pp. 145–149.
ad T. F. O’Rahilly, Irish dialects past and present, 1932 (Best² 527).
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4076.
McKenna (Malachy): Palatalization and labials in the Irish of Torr, Co. Donegal.
In Béalra (2001), pp. 146–160.
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17401.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Element interactions at domain edges.
In Roczniki Humanistyczne 57/5 (2009), pp. 147–161.
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10257.
Hamp (Eric P.): The semantics of poetry in early Celtic.
In CLS 13 (1977), pp. 147–151.
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17638.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Nasal lenition and the theory of phonological government.
In Licensing in syntax and phonology (1995), pp. 165–185.
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17642.
Cyran (Eugeniusz): Two makes three?: vowel quantity in Modern Irish.
In Papers and studies in contrastive linguistics 30 (1995), pp. 167–184.
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17443.
Hoyne (Mícheál): Early Modern Irish miscellanea: 1. Corrigendum (ad Ériu LXVI 72-3) and a note on comparatio compendiaria.
In Ériu 67 (2017), pp. 169–173.
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12536.
Ní Chiosáin (Máire), Padgett (Jaye): An acoustic and perceptual study of Connemara Irish palatalization.
In JIPA 42/2 (2012), pp. 171–191.
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1799.
Ó Sé (Diarmuid): Coimriú siollaí tosaigh sa Ghaeilge.
In Éigse 20 (1984), pp. 171–186.
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17995.
Hoyne (Mícheál): Early Modern Irish miscellanea: 2. A detail of vowel shortening in hiatus in Classical Modern Irish.
In Ériu 67 (2017), pp. 174–178.
Shows that áe (/aː/ with slender offset) had a short equivalent ae (/a/) to which it was reduced in hiatus, and discusses a related problem in IGT i, §91.
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12341.
Mag Eacháin (Conchúr): Samplaí de chaomhnú an chuimiltigh choguasaigh ghlóraigh i lár agus i ndeireadh focal i nGaeilge Chúige Uladh.
In Éigse 38 (2013), pp. 174–187.
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1825.
Ó Máille (T. S.): Béimaistriú i mantfhocail.
In Celtica 11 (1976), pp. 180–186.
Forward stress in hiatus words in Irish (and Manx), including those containing original voiced fricatives.
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15998.
Anderson (Cormac), Jaworski (Sylwester): The phonetics and phonology of rhotics in Modern Irish.
In Studia Celto-Slavica 7 (2015), pp. 193–211.
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4302.
Hamp (Eric P.): Varia: 5. máiríon ‘queen’.
In SGS 16 (1990), pp. 193–194.
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16597.
Jacques (Guillaume), Michaud (Alexis), Rankin (Robert L.): Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: from C to V or from V to C?
In Diachronica 29/2 (2012), pp. 201–230.
Survey includes Celtic material (§1.2: The simplification of stop+nasal onsets in Goidelic and Breton).
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3278.
Sims-Williams (Patrick): The development of the Indo-European voiced labio-velars in Celtic.
In BBCS 29/2 (May, 1981), pp. 201–229.
Corrigenda in BBCS 29/4, p. 690.
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1860.
Ó Dochartaigh (Cathair): Caducous schwa in Ulster Irish.
In Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 208–213.
Loss and retention of absolute final /ə/ in Donegal Irish.
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1861.
Hickey (Raymond): Issues in the vowel phoneme inventory of Western Irish.
In Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 214–226.
With special attention to the vocalic system of Cois Fharraige Ir.
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16555.
Rowicka (Grażyna): 2 + 2 = 3: stress in Munster Irish.
In Fs. Gussman (1996), pp. 217–238.
Argues for a trimoraic trochee as the basic type of foot in Munster Irish prosody.
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17639.
Cyran (Eugeniusz): Vocalic systems in government phonology.
In Licensing in syntax and phonology (1995), pp. 217–237.
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1354.
Bosch (Anna): Borgstrøm’s Dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides: the uses and misuses of description in theory.
In SGS 21 (2003), pp. 221–239.
Particularly on the prosodic qualities of the epenthetic vowel in the Barra dialect.
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3581.
Ó Dochartaigh (Cathair): A minor Irish isogloss.
In StC 14–15 (1979–1980), pp. 223–228.
Examines the distribution of the varieties of /rʹ/ after a labial consonant in north Connacht dialects.
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2045.
Blankenhorn (V. S.): Pitch, quantity and stress in Munster Irish.
In Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 225–250.
Incl. list of suffixes containing long vowel.
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2535.
Gillies (William): Varia: II. Early Irish lía, Scottish Gaelic liutha.
In Ériu 54 (2004), pp. 253–256.
Treatment of early Irish hiatus in Scottish Gaelic, especially in the sequence /i-u/.
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3596.
Blankenhorn (V. S.): Intonation in Connemara Irish: a preliminary study of kinetic glides.
In StC 16–17 (1981–1982), pp. 259–279.
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2047.
de Búrca (Seán): Epenthesis.
In Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 262–276.
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1531.
Ó Baoill (Dónall P.): Síor-athrú teanga agus cás na Gaeilge.
In Éigse 15/4 (Geimhreadh, 1974), pp. 289–302.
Incl. sections on [1.] Athrú fuaime; [2.] Foghlaim na teanga; [3.] Simpliú alamoirfiúil; [4.] Conclúid. Different types of historical phonological change and its relation to other factors such as morphology, semantics, etc.; most examples taken from Donegal Irish.
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5304.
Rice (Keren D.): A reexamination of the feature [sonorant]: the status of ‘sonorant obstruents’.
In Language 69 (1993), pp. 308–344.
pp. 334-340: Irish eclipsis.
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1779.
Ó Dochartaigh (Cathair): Northern Irish níos/nios/nas.
In Éigse 19/2 (1983), pp. 333–340.
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2070.
McManus (Damian): An Nua-Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach.
In Stair na Gaeilge (1994), pp. 335–445.
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4332.
Watson (Seosamh): Hiatus-filling /h/ in Irish and Scottish Gaelic dialects.
In SGS 17 (1996), pp. 376–382.
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3552.
Skerrett (R. A. Q.): Some cases of vowel sandhi in the Irish of Erris.
In StC 10–11 (1975–1976), pp. 388–392.
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16065.
Ó Cuív (Brian): Sandhi phenomena in Irish.
In Sandhi phenomena in the languages of Europe (1986), pp. 395–414.
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3566.
de Búrca (Seán): Syllabicity and palatalization.
In StC 12–13 (1977–1978), pp. 396–404.
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11644.
Ó Baoill (Dónall P.): Tábhacht an athraithe -ai- go -oi- sa tSean-Ghaeilge mar léiriú ar fhorás canúna.
In Ilteangach, ilseiftiúil [Fs. N. J. A. Williams] (2012), pp. 410–429.
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10810.
Dalton (Martha), Ní Chasaide (Ailbhe): Tonal alignment in Irish dialects.
In L & S 48/4 (2005), pp. 441–464.
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2071.
Williams (Nicholas): Na canúintí a theacht chun solais.
In Stair na Gaeilge (1994), pp. 447–478.
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17650.
Watson (Seosamh): Irish retroflexion: a Norse inheritance?
In Verhandlungen des Internationalen Dialektologenkongresses Bamberg 1990 (1994), pp. 533–542.
Concerns the historical development of a retroflex s in rs- and sr-clusters in Irish, with special consideration of its origin in Scottish Gaelic dialects.
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12426.
Ní Chiosáin (Máire): Syllables and phonotactics in Irish.
In The syllable (1999), pp. 551–575.
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19727.
Stanton (Juliet), Zukoff (Sam): Prosodic identity in copy epenthesis: evidence for a correspondence-based approach.
In NLLT 36 (2018), pp. 637–684.
Discusses Irish and Scottish Gaelic data for prosodic misapplication (i.e. blocking) in copy epenthesis.
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2835.
Stefański (Witold): Die Palatalisierung im Irischen und Polnischen: ein kontrastiver Vergleich.
In ZCP 49–50 (1997), pp. 830–836.
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17198.
Elfner (Emily): Recursion in prosodic phrasing: evidence from Connemara Irish.
In NLLT 33/4 (Nov., 2015), pp. 1169–1208.
All informants from the Cois Fharraige area.
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2489.
Bammesberger (Alfred) (ed.): Die Laryngaltheorie und die Rekonstruktion des indogermanischen Laut- und Formensystems / herausgegeben von Alfred Bammesberger.
Idg. Bibl. 3. Heidelberg: Winter, 1988. 585 pp. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen).
2 Teile [Teil 2. Register, bearbeitet von Sabine Ziegler. 1990. 67 pp.].

Rev. by
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 46 (1994), pp. 297-301.
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13507.
Bloch-Rozmej (Anna): Element interactions in phonology: a study in Connemara Irish.
Lublin: Wydawnictwo Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1998. 281 pp.
Rev. by
Antony Dubach Green, in Celtica 24 (2003), pp. 285-305.
Brian Ó Curnáin, in ZCP 52 (2001), pp. 312-316.
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2101.
Sims-Williams (Patrick): The Celtic inscriptions of Britain: phonology and chronology, c. 400–1200.
PPhS, 37. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003. xii + 464 pp.
pp. 296–321: Irish Phonology (§§1–43); pp. 322–350: Irish Chronology.

Rev. by
Alain Blanc, in Kratylos 52 (2007), pp. 220-222.
T. M. Charles-Edwards, in Antiquity 79/306 (Dec., 2005), pp. 961-963.
Joseph F. Eska, in Speculum 80/3 (Jul., 2005), pp. 978-980.
Helen McKee, in CMCS 52 (Winter, 2006), pp. 109-110.
Paul Russell, in StC 38 (2004), pp. 198-201.
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14909.
Hickey (Raymond): The sound structure of Modern Irish.
EALT, 47. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. xii + 481 pp. (Empirical approaches to language typology, 47).
Rev. by
Brian Ó Curnáin, in JCeltL 18 (2017), pp. 155-201.
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