The Accents of Celtic
Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia de The key to the phonetic development of a given word across time lies in its accentuation. As the Old Celtic remains do not indicate their accent, it has to be deduced from their sound-changes. This book investigates for the first time in depth 14 Celtic phenomena resulting from the weakening of unstressed syllables (vocalic assimilations and reductions up to syncope, degeminations, , w'-loss, nasal effacement, metathesis of liquids) and the st...