There is no simple discovery procedure for determining phonological syllable structure (which, li... more There is no simple discovery procedure for determining phonological syllable structure (which, like phonological representations in general, may not be in a one-to-one relationship with systematic phonetic syllabification, and which may not necessarily conform to native speaker intuitions about syllable division). The nature of the mechanism which assigns syllabification (defines possible syllables) for a given language is an empirical hypothesis, whose confirmation depends on the extent to which linguistically significant generalizations can be expressed under it (Feinstein 1979: 255).
... epenthetic syllables in Barra Gaelic represent a case in which his-torically epenthetic, yet ... more ... epenthetic syllables in Barra Gaelic represent a case in which his-torically epenthetic, yet prominent syllables bearinformation previously specified on less prominent neighboring syllables. 1. Introduction Most Hebridean dialects of ScottishGaelic have historically epenthesized ...
... to seek out the ―best‖ representatives of local speech varieties, depending on the linguistic... more ... to seek out the ―best‖ representatives of local speech varieties, depending on the linguistic demographics of each area, semi-speakers as well as ... This corresponds to evidence provided in Ó Murchú's 1989 study of East Perthshire Gaelic, which draws heavily on data from the ...
This essay outlines the current state of Scottish Gaelic dialect study, with a focus on the contr... more This essay outlines the current state of Scottish Gaelic dialect study, with a focus on the contributions of the published Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland [Ó Dochartaigh, C. (Ed.), 1994. Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 5 vols. Dublin] and the archival resources upon which that publication is based. Although the SGDS provides a wealth of transcribed phonetic detail, there is still an urgent need for information on lexical, morphological, and syntactic variation in Scottish Gaelic. In addition it is proposed that the Survey's extensive archives, held at Edinburgh University, from the foundation for a concerted and on-going effort at assembling a larger archival resource on contemporary Scottish Gaelic dialect data for future analytic work, with a view to developing a searchable electronic archive. #
There is no simple discovery procedure for determining phonological syllable structure (which, li... more There is no simple discovery procedure for determining phonological syllable structure (which, like phonological representations in general, may not be in a one-to-one relationship with systematic phonetic syllabification, and which may not necessarily conform to native speaker intuitions about syllable division). The nature of the mechanism which assigns syllabification (defines possible syllables) for a given language is an empirical hypothesis, whose confirmation depends on the extent to which linguistically significant generalizations can be expressed under it (Feinstein 1979: 255).
... epenthetic syllables in Barra Gaelic represent a case in which his-torically epenthetic, yet ... more ... epenthetic syllables in Barra Gaelic represent a case in which his-torically epenthetic, yet prominent syllables bearinformation previously specified on less prominent neighboring syllables. 1. Introduction Most Hebridean dialects of ScottishGaelic have historically epenthesized ...
... to seek out the ―best‖ representatives of local speech varieties, depending on the linguistic... more ... to seek out the ―best‖ representatives of local speech varieties, depending on the linguistic demographics of each area, semi-speakers as well as ... This corresponds to evidence provided in Ó Murchú's 1989 study of East Perthshire Gaelic, which draws heavily on data from the ...
This essay outlines the current state of Scottish Gaelic dialect study, with a focus on the contr... more This essay outlines the current state of Scottish Gaelic dialect study, with a focus on the contributions of the published Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland [Ó Dochartaigh, C. (Ed.), 1994. Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 5 vols. Dublin] and the archival resources upon which that publication is based. Although the SGDS provides a wealth of transcribed phonetic detail, there is still an urgent need for information on lexical, morphological, and syntactic variation in Scottish Gaelic. In addition it is proposed that the Survey's extensive archives, held at Edinburgh University, from the foundation for a concerted and on-going effort at assembling a larger archival resource on contemporary Scottish Gaelic dialect data for future analytic work, with a view to developing a searchable electronic archive. #
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