Metrical structure in Scottish Gaelic: tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength

Morrison, Donald Alasdair

doi:10.1017/s0952675719000204

Cited by 13 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 29 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The Lewis dialect of Gaelic, along with north-west mainland dialects such as Applecross, is described as having contrastive word accents (Borgstrøm 1940, Oftedal 1956, Dorian 1978, Bosch & de Jong 1997, Ladefoged et al 1998, Ternes 2006, Iosad 2015, Nance 2015a, Morrison 2019. Southern Hebridean and other mainland dialects are not reported to use this prosodic feature (see Ternes 2006: 138 for details).…”

Section: Tone Intonation and Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scottish Gaelic

Nance

Maolalaigh

2019

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Scottish Gaelic is a minority language of Scotland spoken by approximately 58,000 people, or 1% of the Scottish population (speaker numbers from the 2011 Census available in National Records of Scotland 2015). Here, we refer to the language as ‘Gaelic’, pronounced in British English as /ɡalɪk/, as is customary within the Gaelic-speaking community. In Gaelic, the language is referred to asGàidhlig/kaːlɪc/. Gaelic is a Celtic language, closely related to Irish (MacAulay 1992, Ní Chasaide 1999, Gillies 2009). Although Gaelic was widely spoken across much of Scotland in medieval times (Withers 1984, Clancy 2009), the language has recently declined in traditional areas such as the western seaboard and western islands of Scotland and is now considered ‘definitely endangered’ by UNESCO classification (Moseley 2010). Analysis of the location of Gaelic speakers in Scotland and maps from the most recent Census in 2011 can be found in National Records of Scotland (2015). Figure 1 shows the location of Gaelic speakers in Scotland as a percentage of the inhabitants aged over three in each Civil Parish who reported being able to speak Gaelic in the 2011 Census.

show abstract

Section: Tone Intonation and Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scottish Gaelic

Nance

Maolalaigh

2019

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In doing so, our approach continues recent metrical work on, e.g., tonal accent in North Germanic (MorénDuolljá 2013, Iosad 2016a, Franconian (e.g. Köhnlein 2011, 2016, Hermans 2012, Kehrein 2017, or Scottish Gaelic (Iosad 2015, Morrison 2019.…”

Section: Figure 1: Tonal Accent In Urban East Norwegian and Central Swedishmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…We define the relevant constraint, HdMatch (Ft), in ( 19) (e.g. McCarthy 1995, Köhnlein 2016, Morrison 2019. HdMatch (Ft) is violated when a foot head (on a mora or a syllable, respectively) is not realized, but it does not evaluate the dependents of any underlying foot; binarity is regulated by constraints such as FtBin.…”

Section: Metrical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

North Germanic Tonal Accent is Equipollent and Metrical: Evidence from Compounding

Kaldhol

Köhnlein

2021

AMP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

For the North Germanic opposition between two tonal accents, it has been claimed that Accent 2 has a lexical tone, that Accent 1 has a lexical tone, that both accents are marked tonally in the lexicon, or that the accent opposition is based on two types of feet. Based on evidence from compounding, we argue that the opposition between Accent 1 and Accent 2 is equipollent, and that this is best expressed in a foot-based approach since each lexical item will necessarily receive a foot. Elaborating on previous metrical work on tonal accent, we assume that binary feet can be built on moras (= Accent 1) or syllables (= Accent 2) and show how this successfully captures compound accentuation in Central Swedish and Urban East Norwegian. Our foot-based analysis is in line with recent work on tonal accent that calls into question the claim that all tonal contrasts within syllables must be due to the presence of lexical tone. In addition, our analysis addresses issues surrounding the phonology of compounds in general, and prosodic effects of compounding in particular.

show abstract

“…However, I do not think that the arguments they present in their reply make a convincing case against the analysis presented in Köhnlein (2016), or more generally against the metrical approach to Franconian and related accentual systems (e.g. Hermans 2012, Kehrein 2018, van Oostendorp 2018 for Franconian; Morén-Duolljá 2013, Iosad 2015, 2016a for North Germanic; Iosad 2016b, Morrison 2019 for Scottish Gaelic).…”

mentioning

confidence: 82%

Why metrical approaches to tonal accent are worth pursuing

Köhnlein

2019

Phonology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Unlike existing analyses with lexical tone, metrical foot-based approaches to tonal accent in Franconian not only focus on an explicit analysis of the tonal contours, but are also equipped to account formally for morphological alternations and other predictable correlates. Examples are interactions of tonal accent with duration, vowel and consonant quality. The existence of such additional correlates is in line with a foot-based analysis, since it mirrors correlates of stress and foot structure found in Germanic languages and elsewhere.

show abstract

Metrical structure in Scottish Gaelic: tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic

North Germanic Tonal Accent is Equipollent and Metrical: Evidence from Compounding

Why metrical approaches to tonal accent are worth pursuing

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About