VOWEL LENGTH IN WELSH MONOSYLLABLES, ITS INTERRELATION WITH IRISH AND OTHER RELATED PROBLEMS: An Acoustic Study and Its Didactic Implications

“This study is a most valuable contribution to Celtic scholarship. Moreover, it promotes efforts to stabilize and maintain the Welsh language and teach it efficiently and adequately.”-- Professor Edward Warner, University of Leipzig, Germany

“This book will make a significant contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Welsh history and literature.”-- Professor Christine Jones, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Abbreviated Table of Contents:


Project Description
Corpus Acquisition
Distinguishing Between Long and Short Vowels
Mutation-patterned Vowel-Coda Interplay
The History of Welsh Sonorants as a Source of Assumptions about Phonemic Vowel Contrast – The Interplay with the Irish
Orthography-Phonology Interplay
Diacritics and Misuse of the Circumflex
Morphological Extensions
Epilogue – Welsh-Irish Comparanda

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