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... vowels are unlikely to be very significant , since in informal speech the majority of ME unstressed vowels had been reduced to / ǝ / ; unskilled writers there- fore often interchanged the vowel - symbols , since they were not ...
... vowels are unlikely to be very significant , since in informal speech the majority of ME unstressed vowels had been reduced to / ǝ / ; unskilled writers there- fore often interchanged the vowel - symbols , since they were not ...
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... vowel or a neutral consonant by a front one . A consonant normally had no influence on a preceding vowel ( such forms as meic ( c ) , mic , genitive of mac ( c ) ' son ' , are quite exceptional ) , except in so far as a non - phonemic ...
... vowel or a neutral consonant by a front one . A consonant normally had no influence on a preceding vowel ( such forms as meic ( c ) , mic , genitive of mac ( c ) ' son ' , are quite exceptional ) , except in so far as a non - phonemic ...
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... vowels before r , since in such words as múirnín the lengthened vowel is a back one ; but since this lengthening is itself of uncertain date we are no further for- ward . O'Rahilly [ ( 1932 ) 141 ] says that " this change seems to have ...
... vowels before r , since in such words as múirnín the lengthened vowel is a back one ; but since this lengthening is itself of uncertain date we are no further for- ward . O'Rahilly [ ( 1932 ) 141 ] says that " this change seems to have ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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