Phonemic transcription and Irish

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

For what it's worth, I think it would be fine to 
use IPA (unless your advisor has serious 
objections). You may also want to include key 
somewhere with a "transliteration" guide between 
the two systems.

If an article is published in a general phonetics 
journal, then IPA is used to transcribe Irish, 
and I have noticed that IPA is really becoming 
more standardized (even on the Wikipedia).

The issue may come up if you publish in a journal 
focusing more on "Irish Studies"  and they expect 
the C´ notation for palatals - but again you can 
either make a key or just redo the transcriptions.

Elizabeth

P.S. This is why I think it's important for 
linguists to be familiar with "quirky" 
transcriptions. besides strict IPA.. ;)


>I am drafting my master's thesis, the subject of 
>which is the sociolinguistics of Irish 
>orthographic reform. Every scientific text on 
>Modern Irish uses a phonemic transcription 
>convention that many of us know from 
>dictionaries such as Foclóir Póca, which is to 
>use an apostrophe to mark palatalization and 
>leave velarization unmarked. For example:
>
>bean /b'an/ 'woman'
>bán /ba:n/ 'white'
>
>However, I.P.A. designates a superscript "j" and 
>superscript lower-case "gamma" symbol to mark 
>palatalization and velarization, respectively. 
>Of course, I can't display this easily in email 
>but the following link displays what I mean in 
>the box labeled "diacritics," under "secondary 
>articulation":
>
><http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ipa.htm>http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ipa.htm
>
>The word processor that I am using to write my 
>thesis can render I.P.A. So, my question is this:
>
>Which transcription method should I use for a 
>scientific paper on Celtic linguistics? And why 
>is it that no scholarly articles on Irish 
>linguistics (at least not the ones I have found) 
>use the I.P.A. convention?
>
>Le gach dea-ghuí,
>Brian Doyle
>M.A. Candidate, Linguistics
>Northeastern Illinois University


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