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Hammond, Michael, “Voiceless nasals in Welsh”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 20 (2019): 31–60.

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Article
“Voiceless nasals in Welsh”
Periodical
Journal of Celtic Linguistics 20 (2019)
Rodway, Simon (ed.), Journal of Celtic Linguistics 20 (2019).
Volume
20
Pages
31–60
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Welsh is described as having two series of nasals, a voiced series [m, n, ŋ], and a voiceless series, transcribed as [m, n, ŋ] or [mh, nh, ŋh]. In this paper, I give a synchronic analysis of the nasals and argue that the second series are phonologically sequences of a nasal followed by [h], i.e. [mh, nh, ŋh]. Moreover, I show that the properties and distribution of these consonants all follow from this assumption. The argument for the analysis comes from: phonetics, the distribution of the mutation system, syllabification, the distribution of [h], poetry, and dialect data.

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