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Lect:
Gaelic, Irish
latitude,longitude:
53,-8
Patterns [ 6 ] Attributes Syllables [ 3 ] Sources [ 5 ] Words [ 6 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
I1L
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
None
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary QS (v4) ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto initial ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Gaelic, Munster) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 1 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight [ 1 ]
long_v: yes
syllable_template: (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)
any weight: 0
2002 Gordon, Matthew. 2002. A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20. pages 491-552.
1968 Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn. 1968. The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: a phonemic study.Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
1989 O' Siadhail, M. (1989). Modern Irish, Grammatical Structure and Dialectal Variation, Cambridge university Press, Cambridge.
1983 Bammesberger, A. (1983). A Handbook of Irish, Vol 2 An outline of Modern Irish Grammar, Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, Heidelberg.
  (Bammesberger 1983:11)Words of more than one syllable whose non-initial syllable contains a long vowel may have secondary stress on the long vowel. The secondary stress may easily become more prominent than the primary stress (Bammesberger 1983)
1961 Dillon, M. (1961). Irish, Teach Yourself books, Hodder & Stoughton, London.
11: (O' Siadhail 1989: 26) (Dillon 1961:11)
ˈbachˌlog bud
ˈuachtaˌraːn president
bolgam beˈlogem mouthful
inion daughter
macalla echo
thratnona afternoon