Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world

Iosad, Pavel

doi:10.1515/9783110220933.105

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“…Mutation has been analyzed extensively in the lin-guistic literature, e.g. Awbery (1973), Lieber (1983), Tallerman (1990), Kibre (1997), Pyatt (1997), Green (2006), Mittendorf & Sadler (2006), Wolf (2007), Stammers (2009), Tallerman (2009), Iosad (2010, Hammond (2011), Hannahs (2011), Hannahs (2013, Prys (2015), etc. The facts of this section are consistent with standard descriptive and pedagogical sources on Welsh, e.g.…”

Section: Mutation In Welshmentioning

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Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

Hammond

Bell

Anderson

et al. 2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper we investigate category-specific effects through the lens of Welsh mutation. Smith (2011) and Moreton et al. (2017) show that English distinguishes nouns and proper nouns in an experimental blending task. Here we show that Welsh distinguishes nouns, verbs, personal names, and place names in the mutation system. We demonstrate these effects experimentally in a translation task designed to elicit mutation intuitions and in several corpus studies. In addition, we show that these effects correlate with lexical frequency. Deeper statistical analysis and a review of the English data suggests that frequency is a more explanatory factor than part of speech in both languages. We therefore argue that these category-specific effects can be reduced to lexical frequency effects.

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Section: Mutation In Welshmentioning

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Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

Hammond

Bell

Anderson

et al. 2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Many phonological (or partially phonological) accounts of the initial mutations of Irish and the other Celtic languages have been proposed, grounded in a number of theoretical frameworks and spanning several decades, including Hamp (1951), Rogers (1972), Lieber (1983, Ní Chiosáin (1991), Swingle (1993), Grijzenhout (1995), Pyatt (1997), and Wolf (2007). Another longstanding and growing body of scholarship argues that the initial mutations belong, at least in part, to the morphology or the lexicon, including Hamp (1951), Oftedal (1962), Green (2003Green ( , 2006Green ( , 2007, Stewart (2004), Mittendorf and Sadler (2006), Iosad (2008Iosad ( , 2010Iosad ( , 2014, Hannahs (2013). For details of these models, the reader is referred to the original sources, as well as to the summaries and discussions in Stewart (2004) and Hannahs (2011).…”

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“…Another longstanding and growing body of scholarship, however, argues that the initial mutations belong, at least in part, to the morphology or to the lexicon, e.g. Hamp (1951), 4 Oftedal (1962), Green (2003, 2006, 2007), Stewart (2004), Mittendorf & Sadler (2006), Iosad (2008, 2010, 2014), Hannahs (2013). In lexical accounts like the Green or Iosad models, the forms croí [ɾ ɣ ] (radical), chroí [ɾ ɣ ] ( séimhiú -lenition), and gcroí [ɡɾ ɣ ] (eclipsis), for example, are all listed in the lexicon.…”

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Total eclipse of the heart? The production of eclipsis in two speaking styles of Irish

Welby¹,

Chiosáin²,

Raghallaigh³

2016

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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We examined the production of the Irish initial mutation eclipsis in two speaking styles. In initial mutation phenomena, a word appears with a different initial sound depending on the lexical or morphosyntactic environment (e.g. croí [kɾɣi] ‘(a) heart’ (radical form), (a) chroí [xɾɣi] ‘(his) heart/darling’ (séimhiú-lenition form), and (a) gcroí [ɡɾɣi] ‘their heart/darling’ (eclipsis form)). The goals of the study were: (i)to examine whether there are acoustic differences between the initial consonants of radical word forms (e.g. [ɡ] of gruig ‘(a) frown/scowl’) and the corresponding consonants of eclipsis forms (e.g. [ɡ] of gcroí), as has been found for similar phenomena in other languages;(ii)to examine variability in the patterns of initial mutation in the speech of present-day speakers of Irish.Our analyses offer limited evidence that there may be phonetic differences between radical and corresponding eclipsis consonants, but the current data do not allow us to rule out alternative explanations. The realization of initial mutations in semi-spontaneous speech differed dramatically both from that of read speech and from the expectations of the traditional grammar. The results suggest that the realization of eclipsis and other initial mutations may be style- or register-dependent. We also found some evidence that it may vary by consonant type, in part due to phonological frequency patterns of the language.

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“…In Munster Irish however, stress may shift on to a subsequent syllable under certain conditions (see Gussmann 1997 for discussion). 2 The term 'incorporated', is used by some scholars (Oftedal 1962;Ternes 1990;Iosad 2010) to define those cases where mutation occurs without an overt trigger. An example is the past tense in most dialects of Modern Irish, which is lenited even when there is no surface preclitic, e.g.…”

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The Phonetics and Phonology of Rhotics in Modern Irish

Anderson¹,

Jaworski²

2015

Studia Celto-Slavica

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This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and broad-slender, the same oppositions being relevant also for laterals and coronal nasals. However, descriptions of modern Goidelic dialects typically posit two or three distinct rhotic phenomes. While the distribution and nature of sonorant contrasts has featured strongly in discussions about sound change and phonological patterning in the Insular Celtic languages, there has been little empirical study into the synchronic status of sonorants in contemporary Irish, a point this paper aims to address.

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Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

Category-specific effects in Welsh mutation

Total eclipse of the heart? The production of eclipsis in two speaking styles of Irish

The Phonetics and Phonology of Rhotics in Modern Irish

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