-
tense is not
subject to
vowel harmony, i.e. it is
invariant /i/ > /ı/ in
noninitial and
closed final syllables /ö/ > /oa/, /o/ and /ü/ > /ua/, /u/ in many...
- are
still distinct from initial-syllable
short vowels.
Short vowels in
noninitial syllables differ from
short vowels in
initial syllables by
being only...
-
where the
second vowel was any
vowel but *i were monophthongized. In
noninitial syllables,
short vowels were
deleted from the
phonetic representation...
- a
neutral vowel → kerällä kera
begins with a
neutral vowel, but has a
noninitial back
vowel →
keralla Some
dialects that have a
sound change opening diphthong...
- However,
certain words,
especially adverbs and loanwords, have
stress on a
noninitial syllable, e.g. amháin /əˈwaːnʲ/ ('only'),
tobac /təˈbak/ ('tobacco')....
-
which is
represented by "ʔ". "Loans are
common sources of
words with
noninitial stress", an
example being [pirísiː] pitísii 'policeman'. A word with two...
- as
voiced stops [ɡ dʒ] in word-initial
position and
within a
stressed noninitial syllable onset. /a i/ in
unstressed positions are
heard as [ə ɪ]. Sounds...
- as [ɟ], e.g.
marcaigh "hor****" [ˈmˠɑɾˠkəɟ].
Stress is
attracted to
noninitial heavy syllables: corcán [kəɾˠˈkɑːn̪ˠ] "pot", mealbhóg [mʲal̪ˠəˈβˠoːɡ]...
- from the Mediterranean. Eska (1994)
argues that the
change from verb-
noninitial word
order in
Continental Celtic to verb-initial in
Insular Celtic is...
- nominative,
continues Proto-Germanic *uhsiniz < *uhsenez, with e > i in
noninitial syllables followed, in Old English, by an umlaut. This is the only Old...
