Verbal Nouns and Event Structure in Scottish Gaelic

High Back Vowels in Scottish Gaelic

This study provides an acoustic phonetic analysis of some of the vowels in an endangered language with little phonetic documentation, Scottish Gaelic. It tests previous mainly impressionistic analyses which claim Scottish Gaelic has phonemic vowel length, and contrasts four high back vowels /u  o /. Results suggest four vowels are indeed contrasted, and that phonemic /u/ is divided into two p...

Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

Phonetics in phonology: evidence from Scottish Gaelic preaspiration

Preaspirated stops in the English of Scottish Gaelic-English bilinguals

Preaspirated voiceless stops, a well-documented feature of Scottish Gaelic, have also been anecdotally observed in the English spoken in the Scottish Hebrides island chain. This paper presents the first sociophonetic study of preaspirated stops in Hebrides English. Analysis of speech produced by 24 male and female Gaelic-English bilinguals aged 19-75 found that, while most participants produced...

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROUP -rt IN SCOTTISH GAELIC

T HE consonant systems of the Scottish Gaelic dialects, 1 on account of the manner in which they have evolved, often present interesting contrasts to those of Irish dialects, most notably with regard to the plosive consonants. A recent article by MM airt n O Murchh u (l985:195{ 8) demonstrated how the origins of one particular sound change may sometimes be usefully looked for in the eeects of a...