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... dialects of Irish . No mediĉval dialect is well docu- mented the strength of the Irish literary tradition meant that the dialect features of spoken Irish were rarely recorded in written texts ; the rhymes and assonances of bardic poetry ...
... dialects of Irish . No mediĉval dialect is well docu- mented the strength of the Irish literary tradition meant that the dialect features of spoken Irish were rarely recorded in written texts ; the rhymes and assonances of bardic poetry ...
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... dialect of Fingall . Not only have we three texts which explicitly claim to be Fingallian ( XI , XIII , XVI ) , but we also have documentary evidence which enables us to specify certain features as characteristic of the dialect . All ...
... dialect of Fingall . Not only have we three texts which explicitly claim to be Fingallian ( XI , XIII , XVI ) , but we also have documentary evidence which enables us to specify certain features as characteristic of the dialect . All ...
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... dialectal peculiarities ( §§ 96 , 105 , 112 ) . The only phono- logical feature which suggests continuity ( and that only indirectly ) is the occurrence of postponed stress in the dialect of Fingall ( §§ 16-21 ) . There is no direct ...
... dialectal peculiarities ( §§ 96 , 105 , 112 ) . The only phono- logical feature which suggests continuity ( and that only indirectly ) is the occurrence of postponed stress in the dialect of Fingall ( §§ 16-21 ) . There is no direct ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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Aphorismical Discovery aund back vowel bilingual speakers Bog-Witticisms Brogue Captain consonant dear Joy Dermot Derry dialect diphthong Dobson doubt Dublin Dundalk England evidence final Fingall Fingallian front vowels haue Hiberno Hiberno-English Honest Whore idiom instances Ireland Irish Hudibras Irish language Irish Masque Irish neutral Irish words King loanwords long vowel maake Manx Gaelic meaning Munster Irish Nees non-standard spellings noun oaths occurs origin palatal palatal consonant Patrick phonemes phrase play postponed stress printed probably pronoun pronunciation Purgatorium Hibernicum rapparees reference reflect represent rhyme scene Scottish Scottish Gaelic secondary language seems seventeenth century sh-spellings shelf Shoul Sir John Oldcastle speech Stage Irish Standard English Stukeley Teague tell texts Thomas Thomas Stukeley thou Ubique XII Ulster unvoicing usage verb viii Welsh Embassador write construction xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii