A Dialect of Donegal : Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties. Phonology and Texts (Paperback)

Introductory; Part I. The Vowel System: 1. The back vowels; 2. The front vowels; 3. The irrational vowels; 4. The dipthongs; 5. Nasal vowels; Part II. The Consonants: 1. h, j, w; 2. The liquids and nasals; 3. The spirants; 4. The labial, dental and guttural stops; Part III. Synthesis: 1. Notes on the consonants; 2. Metathesis; 3. Dissimulation; 4. Loss of consonant; 5. Loss of vowel; 6. Vowel-shortening; 7. Uncertainty of initial; 8. Sandhi; 9. Vowel-length; 10. Stress; 11. Stress of compounds; 12. Sentence-stress; 13. Intonation; 14. Characteristics of Donegal Irish; Word lists; Texts; Notes on the texts.