@article{4e843ea6a27845b783a295275a33ad34,
title = "Phonological restrictions on lenition in Scottish gaelic",
abstract = "There has been extraordinary attention devoted to the Celtic mutations over the years, with various authors arguing for phonological, morphological, or lexical treatments (and various blends thereof). Strikingly, this literature is virtually bereft of any mention of the phonological restrictions that can sometimes limit the applicability of mutation. In this article, we provide a detailed experimental and corpus-based investigation of the phonological restrictions on Scottish Gaelic mutation. Using both techniques, we show that the phonological restrictions are alive yet are in a state of flux. The continued productivity of these phonological aspects of the mutation system argues that any analysis of mutation must attend to them.",
keywords = "Celtic, Lenition, Morphology, Mutation, Phonology, Scottish gaelic",
author = "Michael Hammond and Yan Chen and Elise Bell and Andrew Carnie and Diana Archangeli and Adam Ussishkin and Muriel Fisher",
note = "Funding Information: Thanks to Ian Clayton, Diane Ohala, and Natasha Warner for much useful discussion. Thanks to Roibeard O Maolalaigh, Michael Bauer, and Uilleam MacDhonnchaidh for providing us with various corpus resources. Thanks to Dan Brenner, Sam Johnston, Nick Kloehn, and Josh Meyer for enormous research assistance in Arizona and in Scotland. (Thanks also to Diane Ohala for helping out in Scotland as well.) Thanks to the staff and administration at Sabhal M{\'o}r Ostaig for graciously hosting our now several research trips to Skye. Finally, a very special thanks to our research consultants, who so warmly welcomed us to their world, and who shared their insights into this most beautiful and important language. This research was supported by NSF grant BCS 11443818. All errors are our own. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1353/lan.2017.0020",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "93",
pages = "446--472",
journal = "Language",
issn = "0097-8507",
publisher = "Linguistic Society of America",
number = "2",
}