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- Title
Voiceless Nasals in Welsh.
- Authors
Hammond, Michael
- Abstract
Welsh is described as having two series of nasals, a voiced series [m, n, ŋ], and a voiceless series, transcribed as [...] or [mh, nh, ŋh]. In this paper, I give a synchronic analysis of the nasals and argue that the second series are phonologically sequences of a nasal followed by [h], i.e. [mh, nh, ŋh]. Moreover, I show that the properties and distribution of these consonants all follow from this assumption. The argument for the analysis comes from: phonetics, the distribution of the mutation system, syllabification, the distribution of [h], poetry, and dialect data.
- Subjects
NASALITY (Phonetics); WELSH language; MUTATION (Phonetics); SYLLABICATION; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0962-1377
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16922/jcl.20.3