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THE SOUND STRUCTURE OF MODERN IRISH - RAYMOND H...

The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of
Irish. Based on the main forms of the language  it offers an analysis of the segments and the
processes in its sound system. Each section begins with a description of the area of phonology
which is the subject - such as stress patterns  phonotactics  epenthesis or metathesis - and
then proceeds to consider the special aspects of this subject from a theoretical and
typological perspective. The book pays particular attention to key processes in the sound
system of modern Irish. The two most important of these are palatalisation and initial mutation
phenomena which are central to Irish and the analysis of which has consequences for general
phonological theory. The other main emphasis in the book is on a typological comparison of
several different languages  all of which show palatalisation and or initial mutation as part
of their systems. The different forms of Celtic  Slavic languages  Romance dialects and
languages along with languages such as Finnish  Fula  Nivkh and Southern Paiute are considered
to find out how processes which are phonetic in origin (external sandhi) can become
functionalised and integrated into the morphosyntactic system of a language.

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