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EDITORS: Downing, Laura J.; Hall, T. Alan; Raffelsiefen, Renate
TITLE: Paradigms in Phonological Theory
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press.
YEAR: 2005
Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-3477.html 

Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Penn State University

INTRODUCTION

This volume is a series of articles focusing on theoretically defining how 
output forms can be remodeled based on a paradigm within the Optimality 
Theory model. Linguists working with morphologically complex languages, 
especially their historical aspects, are all familiar with changes in word 
forms showing the effects of "paradigm leveling" or "analogy" in 
Neogramammarian terms. The challenge for modern theoretical linguists 
has been how to consistently model these changes so that the data can be 
accounted for without necessarily resorting to a series of ad hoc accounts.

One of the appeals of Optimality Theoretical accounts of 
morphophonological phenomena is that it postulates that grammars include 
a variety of competing constraints which, depending on which constraint 
has priority, causes different output forms to be realized. An account of 
paradigm leveling can be devised by invoking the notion of paradigm 
identity constraints requiring forms to have similar forms outranking 
competing phonological or phonetic constraints or outranking constraints 
on preserving underlying original lexical input forms.

As this collection of papers show though, formulating the constraints so 
that correct output forms are produced is still a complex task. Linguists 
interested in the nature of morphological paradigms and issues of how 
morphology and phonology interact will find in-depth discussions of a 
variety of issues including how paradigms are defined, how base forms are 
determined and how different constraint rankings change which output 
forms win. These articles cover a wide range of languages including 
Hebrew, Latin, Jita, English, Hungarian, Spanish and others. This volume 
also includes theoretical articles by McCarthy and Kenstowicz.

SUMMARY (WITH SOME DISCUSSION)

The first article is the introduction by editors Laura Downing, T. Alan 
Hall and Renate Raffelsieffen. The article provides an overview of how 
paradigms in were analyzed in linguistic theory from 19th century on. For 
much of the time, paradigms were viewed as peripheral or an 
epiphenomenon in phonological analyses. Morphology was not ignored 
altogether, as can be seen in the theory of lexical phonology, but some 
paradigmatic effects were attributed to cyclic application of some 
phonological rules interleaved with affixation. With the advent of Optimality 
Theory, the relation of morphology and phonology was reevaluated and 
Downing, Hall and Raffelsieffen identify several theoretical proposals. To 
account for "cyclic effects", phonologists including Benua's 
Transderivational Correspondence Theory (1997) proposed that 
constraints could be evaluated recursively, thus replicating the interleaving 
of phonology and affixation. Candidates showing cyclicity or paradigm 
effects are said to be obeying a high order Output-Output Identity 
constraint (O-O-Ident) requiring the base form to be the same in both 
derived forms and underived forms. However this approach is questioned 
by some, including McCarthy (Chapter 8, this volume) because rankings 
must change between recursions to account for the forms, this diverging 
from the OT parallelism requirement.

Another approach discussed in the introduction is a non-recursive Base-
Priority approach in which a morphologically complex form is evaluated 
with one set of constraints, including one of a family of Output-Output (O-
O) identity constraints. Most of the papers in this volume use the Base 
Priority approach in which individual forms are evaluated individually 
against a base, or the related Symmetric approach (Kenstowicz, McCarthy 
this volume) in which entire paradigms are evaluated together. 
Interestingly, Base-Priority approaches do not require the output 
correspondences to be always between a "non-derived" and "derived", but 
can be between two derived forms such as a future and imperative form 
(Bat El, Chapter 3, this volume). Thus , Downing et. al. note that more 
leveling phenomena can be accounted for. A major theme, therefore, is 
determining which form is the base used to evaluate other members of the 
paradigm.

The second article "The Morphological Basis of Paradigm Leveling" Adam 
Albright discusses paradigm leveling within one class of Latin nominal 
declensions as exemplified in the change of /hono:s/ 'honor-NOM' 
to /hono:r/, to be more consistent with oblique forms such 
as /hono:ris/ 'honor-GEN'. Historically, the root for 'honor' was s-
final /hono:s-/  resulting in older forms like /hono:sis/ 'honor-GEN'. At 
some point, Latin /s/ surfaced as /r/ in intervocalic position, causing 
forms like /hono:sis/ to surface as /hono:ris/, while /hono:s/ 'honor-NOM' 
remained unaffected. Thus this noun had two forms of a root in its 
paradigm -- /hono:s/ (nominative) and /hon:or/ -- (all other forms). This 
was leveled in favor of the -r form via a O-O-Ident constraint. The 
question Albright asks is why the oblique -r form was chosen as a 
candidate base. Intuitively, it has been known that oblique forms 
(genitive, dative, etc) should be treated as the base form over nominative 
forms; hence Albright notes that Latin paradigm leveling effects should 
favor oblique forms. As evidence for favoring the oblique as the base over 
the nominative, Albright provides statistical evidence from corpus studies 
showing that oblique forms are more often written in texts than the 
nominative. In addition, Albright points out that later Romance borrowings 
like Spanish "noche" 'night', French "nuit" 'night' and Italian "notte" 'night' 
are descendents of the Latin oblique root  for night , "nocte" /nokte/ with 
a /t/,  not the nominative "nox" /noks/ with no /t/. Finally, Albright notes, that 
there are a variety of nouns in Latin where the oblique form cannot be 
predicted from the nominative. As a minimal set, he mentions four 
nominatives ending with -us which have differently formed obliques 
("populus, populi" 'people', "corpus, corporis" 'body', /manus, 
manu:s/ 'hand', "genus, generis" 'kind'). Based on statistical frequency and 
predictability across paradigms, Albright argues that Latin speakers 
considered the oblique to be the true base, and favored for leveling effects.

In the third article, "Competing Principles of Paradigm Uniformity: 
Evidence From the Hebrew Imperative Paradigm," author Outi Bat-El 
discusses the forms of modern Colloquial Hebrew imperatives in relation to 
other members of the verb paradigm, in particular the future. Like other 
Semitic languages, Hebrew verbal morphology is characterized by 
combinations of a series of consonantal roots representing the verb lexeme 
combined with different templates of vowels, affixes and truncations for 
each verb form. Bat-El argues that the Hebrew imperatives are formed by 
truncating the initial segments of a future form where ranked markedness 
constraints determine how much is deleted. Hebrew verb tenses are 
marked for gender, so the masculine future is truncated to form a 
masculine imperative, while feminine futures are truncated to form a 
feminine imperative. In some cases though, Bat-El argues that the 
constraint hierarchy does not allow a winning candidate to surface from 
truncation of the future. In these cases, if a masculine imperative can be 
formed, then the feminine imperative will be formed from the masculine 
future base plus a feminine marker. Therefore, there is competition in which 
form will be used as a base. In Optimality terms, Bat-El analyzes this as 
Existence (a form must be realized) outranking Structural  Identity (a form 
uses the same base). However, if not even a masculine can be formed, 
then no imperatives will be formed; that is Structural Identity out ranks 
Existence in this case. To account for this paradoxical change in 
ordering, Bat-El proposes that the future-imperative is a "sub-paradigm". 
As long as one imperative can surface based on the future, then the 
constraints allow both imperatives to be formed. Bat-El contrasts the 
formation of the imperative in Colloquial Hebrew with Tiberian Hebrew. At 
that stage, a number of markedness constraints prevent the imperative and 
future form from surfacing with identical bases, However there are no gaps 
in the Imperative, meaning Existence is respected throughout the entire 
paradigm. In Colloquial Hebrew, Output-Output constraints prevent 
alternate bases from surfacing, even if gaps are formed.

The next article is Luigi Burzio's "Sources of Paradigm Uniformity" which 
focuses on the relationship on "closeness" of two related forms and the 
tendency for paradigm leveling to occur. Bruzio gives the example of the 
English word "larynx" /'lær.Inks/ shows stress shift in the irregular 
plural "larynges" /la.'rIn.jis/, but not in the regular plural "larynxes". 
Similarly, Spanish inflected imperfect forms maintain consistent stress, 
but exhibits stress shift in the infinitive (1). Note that in the case 
of "amábamus" 'we loved', the effects of paradigm levelling have caused 
the stress to shift from the original position it had in Latin.

(1) Forms of Spanish ama 'love'
a'ma-bas 'you loved
a'má-bamos 'we loved' < ama'ba:mus (Latin)
a'mar 'to love' < a'ma:re (Latin)
a'mable 'loveable'

The intuition is that forms which are semantically and 
morphologically "closer" are more likely to show effects of paradigm 
leveling. Burzio proposes that "closeness" can be calculated as a gradient 
using Hebb's (1949) notion of entailment relationships between two items. 
Criteria for determining whether entailments exist between forms are 
closeness in meaning and sharing phonological (segmental/metrical) 
material. Forms sharing a number of entailments, may be "attracted" 
enough, in some cases the attraction is "strong" enough that paradigm 
leveling may cause paradigm leveling where phonological information in 
forms is made to be closer or even identical.

The next section is an OT account of English "Level 1" affixes (e.g. -ive) 
differ from "Level 2" (e.g. -ness) affixes. I had some issues with this 
portion of the discussion that I will discuss in the following paragraph. 
The final section of the article returns to the issue of morphological 
parameters for determining closeness. Burzio's view is that if forms are 
close enough semantically, and share some phonological material, then 
they may be attracted enough to cause paradigm leveling effects. One 
criteria is whether two forms share the same part of speech. For instance, 
the Spanish forms "amabas" 'you loved' and "amábamu" " we loved' are 
both imperfect inflected finite verbs, while the infinitive "amar" is a non-
finite verb and the related adjective "amable" 'loveable' are different 
parts of speech. Therefore the attraction between finite verb forms would 
be stronger, and more subject to paradigm leveling than between a non-
finite verb and an infinitive or adjective. Burzio also proposes that 
marked categories may be more subject to paradigm leveling because they 
contain more entailments that must be satisfied. As an example, Burzio 
considers an Old English subjunctive paradigm that would [+subjunctive] 
entailment links missing indicative paradigm. As a result, Burzio a 
subjunctive form might be more liable to paradigm leveling, and that does 
appear to be a general linguistic trend.

As mentioned before, the middle portion of Burzio's article is an analysis 
of English Level 1 affixes that cause vowel changes and stress shifts 
versus Level 2 affixes which do not change the stem. His basic analysis is 
that because words ending with Level 1 affixes are semantically irregular, 
the entailments between forms are weakened to the point where additional 
phonological processes and alternate roots can override an OO constraint 
for stems. A corollary that Burzio proposes that "Level 1" affixes which 
cause stem changes change the stem to a less phonologically marked 
form. An example cited by Burzio is that a regular past tense 
like "weeped" /wi:pt/ contains a marked combinationo of /i/ plus /pt/ 
which are normally found ONLY in derived roots. This -ipt cluster is 
allowed only because OO constraints or entailments between "weep" 
and "weeped" force the root to be the same. In contrast, the irregular 
plural "wept" /wEpt/ contains the less marked /Ept/ cluster (also found in 
underived "sept"). As I interpret this article, Burzio is predicting that 
Level 1 rules cause forms to surface in a less marked form than a Level 2 
affix would.

Yet there are counterexamples of "Level 1" (or irregular) affixes creating 
more marked clusters, not less marked. For instance, Welsh has a number 
of plural affixes, the most regular of which is probably "-(i)au" as in the 
English borrowing "iard" /yard/, plural "iardiau" /yardye/. Welsh also 
contains a number of stem changing plurals where vowels change between 
the singular and plural. One pattern is a change of  the diphthong "ia" /ya/ 
in the singular to the triphthong "iei" /yey/ in the plural as in 
Welsh "iarll" /yarL/ 'earl' to plural "ieirll" /yeyrL/. Historically, this 
is a preservation of a fronting rule triggered by Proto Celtic plural /i/ 
which was deleted in later states, The synchronic result is a cluster 
which is marked because it is a triphthong closed by two liquids. Note 
that all other derived forms of "iarll" (iarlles 'countess', pl. iarllesau, 
iarllwaed 'noble blood', show the same stem as singular "iarll." In addition, 
there are very few cases of "ieir"clusters in underived forms; most are 
derived from "iar" singulars 
(e.g. "patriarch" 'patriarch', "patrieruch" 'patriarchs' 
(regular "patriarchau" is also attested). Whatever analysis is given to 
this plural formation, it would be difficult to argue that the "iei" 
cluster is less marked than "ia". These facts suggest that "Level 1" 
alternations effects cannot all be derived  from phonological markedness 
constraints within the synchronic grammar. Note that all Welsh data is 
available in the Concise Welsh Language Dictionary/Geriadur Prifysgol 
Cymru (2004).

Another question I had with the article was that I was not able to 
determine a reliable method for predicting "closeness". For instance, 
how "close" would two forms have to be in order for paradigm leveling 
effects to occur? It seems reasonable that a verb and a nominal 
(e.g. "compel/compulsive") would have enough semantic distance to not be 
subject to paradigm leveling, but what about irregular inflected forms 
such as "keep/kept"). Burzio's article did not appear to have any kind of 
principle predicting the maintenance of irregular inflected forms (other 
than possible cases of phonological markedness). If anything, one might 
predict that common verbs and nouns are LESS likely to be irregular 
because of semantic closeness. Instead they are MORE likely to be 
irregular. One criterion could be that irregulars have different 
phonological roots, and therefore are not as "close," but this to means 
seems circular. Irregulars are not as close because they are irregular 
forms. I feel this is an interesting conceptualization, but I was not sure 
how to apply it to other data.

The next article, Start Davis's "Capitalistic" vs "Militaristic": The 
paradigm Uniformity Effect Reconsidered" is an extensive review of 
Steriade (2000) in which she notes that "militaristic" has an aspirated 
[th] in he stem while "capitalistic" has a flap [D]. Steriade originally 
argues that "capitalistic" is regular and that "militaristic" preserves 
the [th] due to paradigm optimization with "military". However, Davis 
examines other English data and argues that "militaristic" is actually the 
regular form, while "capitalistic" is preserving the foot structure 
of "capital". Davis presents a series of words in which the voiceless 
stops are aspirated despite that fact that they are non-word initial, not 
the beginning of a foot and in stressless syllables. Some of these include 
(2):

(2) English words with aspirated stops in unstressed syllables.
Medi[th]erranan
Winne[ph]egosis
Nebu[kh]adnezzar

Since these are underived words, a paradigm leveling account could not 
account for the aspirated vowels. Instead Davis argues that these weak 
syllables are adjoined to the following two-syllable foot to create 
a "super foot" of three syllables. He uses data for expletive insertion to 
show that "fucking" can be inserted before or after the target syllables. 
According to this analysis, the initial /t/ "mili[th]aristic" is aspirated 
by regular phonology. However, "capi[D]alistic" (derived "capital") does 
not show aspiration. Davis notes that the /t/ in "capital" cannot be 
adjoined into a super foot because only syllable follows it; therefore 
the /t/ is a flap. In "capi[D]alistic", Davis argues that this foot 
structure is preserved, causing a flap to surface. The analysis of 
aspiration does seem to match both the data and my native speaker 
intuition, but interestingly, this is one case where a traditional cyclic 
analysis might work. It's also striking that Davis argues for a paradigm 
relationship between "capital" and "capitalistic" (with a Level 1 affix) 
whereas Burzio would argue that the relationship would be more distant so 
that paradigm leveling might not be predicted.

In the sixth article, "Jita Causative Doubling Provides Optimal 
Paradigms"., Laura J. Downing discusses a phenomenon in the Bantu 
language Jita where the causative marker /y/ is attached to all affixes as 
in "oku-gus-i:s-y-an-y-a" "to sell to each other" (lit: cause each other to 
buy) where /y/ appears after the root "gus" (as /i:/) and again before the 
reciprocative and benefactive suffixes. Downing examines older cyclic 
analyses and autosegmental floating analyses before arguing that 
causative /y/ can be displaced via special alignment constraints and that 
doubling is a way to optimize the output of causative forms.

Article seven, "Paradigmatic Uniformity and Contrast" by Michael 
Kenstowicz gives an overview of different types of paradigm leveling 
effects that can be found in data from a variety of languages. In 
particular, he distinguishes paradigm effects which cause forms to surface 
in a more phonologically similar manner, and paradigm effects which 
ensure that different members of a paradigm have distinct forms. An 
example of paradigm effects making forms more similar can be found in 
Spanish diminutive formation. Spanish diminutives are typically formed with 
the ending "-it(o/a)" (3a), but the ending surfaces as -"cit(o/a)" when the 
root ends with a consonant. (3b)

(3a)
libro    'book'             librito    'little book'
lavadora 'washing machine'  lavadorita 'little washing machine'.

(3b)
balcon 'balcony'  balconcito 'little balcony'
amor   'love'     amorcito   'little love'

For some nouns though, if the masculine ends in a consonant, both the 
masculine and feminine counterparts surface with "-cit(o/a)" even if the 
feminine ends with a vowel. For instance masculine "ladron" 'thief' has a 
diminutive "ladroncito", but the feminine "ladrona" also has 
diminutive "ladroncita" instead of predicted "ladronita." Kenstowicz 
proposes that a high ranking ParadigmUniformity constraint forces 
feminine "ladroncita" to surface in parallel to masculine "ladroncito". 
The paradigm effects forces the forms to be more similar.

In contrast, Kenstowicz presents a number of cases from Slavic 
declensions where paradigm effects appear to block cases where two 
forms would surface in the same form. An example is the Trigad dialect of 
Bulgarian where unstressed /o/ is normally reduced to /a/ (4a). However, 
this is blocked in the neuter singular /o/ whenever the counterpart plural 
ends with unstressed /a/ (4b).

(4a) d[ó]zhd ~ d[a]zhdóm
(4b) 
zórn-o  (*zórna) 'seed.sg' ~ zórn-a 'seeds'
blág-o (*blága) 'blessing' ~ blága 'blessings'

Kenstowicz proposes that a high ranking Paradigm Contrast constraint 
keeps these two forms apart. If the /o/ to /a/ reduction had applied as 
expected, the singular and plural of "zorno/zorna" 'seed' would have 
merged into one form "zorna". This is an excellent article, and in some 
ways I wish it had been the first. It clearly lays out what kinds of 
paradigm effects can be found and what some of the theoretical 
implications might be. The article also notes that much more work in this 
area of analysis is needed.

The eighth article, "Optimal Paradigms," by John McCarthy is a theoretical 
article in which McCarthy proposes an Optimal Paradigm (OP) algorithm in 
which all members of a paradigm are evaluated jointly for faithfulness 
with each other. McCarthy first reviews other approaches and presents 
theoretical arguments  for rejecting them. For instance. McCarthy argues 
that  base priority approach like Transderivational Correspondence Theory 
(TCT) (Benua 1997) cannot work for consonantal root languages like 
Arabic because no "root" can be identified, yet he argues that paradigm 
effects can still be found McCarthy also rejects Universal Exponence  (UE) 
(Kenstowicz 1996), because it overpredicts that derived forms can affect 
base forms (and McCarthy notes that there is little evidence for this 
occurring in linguistic data).

Instead McCarthy hopes to combine the best of both approaches into his 
Optimal Paradigm (OP) approach by evaluating all candidates of a 
paradigm together for Input-Output and Output- Output constraints. That is, 
candidates would consist of entire hypothetical paradigms where OP 
violations would be counted as one violation per form (5).

(5) Arabic Verbal Paradigm Candidates (@ = schwa, sh = alvelo-palatal 
fricative)
UR: /sh at erb/+ {t,na,ti,tu,u, at t}

Candidate 1: sh at rbt, shr at bt, shr at bna, shr at bti, shr at btu, sh at rbu, 
sh at rb@t
Candidate 2: sh at rbt, shr at bt, shr at bna, shr at bti, shr at btu, shr at bu, 
shr at b@t

McCarthy defines an inflectional paradigm as containing "all and only the 
words based on a single lexeme" and specifically assumes they are "flat" 
although does allow for the possibility of "subparadigms." perhaps similar 
to those argued for in Hebrew by Bat El (same volume). Other factors 
proposed by McCarthy include "majority rules" and attraction to the 
unmarked favoring leveling in favor of less marked segments. To provide 
empirical examples, McCarthy discusses several cases from Arabic verbal 
morphology.

In the ninth article, "Paradigm Uniformity Effects Versus Boundary
Effects", Renate Raffelsiefen reviews English data where morphologically
complex words may have different phonological properties and phonotactic
constraints than those of simple words. The goal of this article is to 
distinguish boundary effects from paradigm uniformity effects and propose 
a set of criteria for distinguishing between boundary effects and paradigm 
leveling.

Article Ten, "Uniformity and Contrast in the Hungarian Verbal paradigm" by 
Peter Rebrus and Miklos Torkenczy discusses the relation of two families 
of paradigm constraints and how they interact in some Hungarian verbal 
paradigms. The first, PAR, is a constraint specifying that the forms of 
stems and endings remain constant throughout a paradigm; the second, 
CON specifies that each member of the paradigm be phonologically 
distinct. One phenomenon discussed by the authors are "anti-harmony" 
effects in Hungarian suffixes. Hungarian suffixes normally harmonize with 
the stem vowel in terms of backness, but the harmony appears to be 
blocked in some cases. Rebrus and Torkenczy argue that anti-harmony 
occurs because harmonic affixes might create homophonous forms in some 
paradigms; thus harmony is blocked when contrast in person and number 
might be lost.

The other phenomenon Rebrus and Torkenczy discuss the definite versus 
indefinite contrast in the Hungarian present indicative which disappears 
in the past (i.e. only forms corresponding to the definite surface, but 
can be either definite or indefinite). To account for this, the authors 
propose that the CON(Person/Number) (Contrast in person and number) is 
ranked higher than CON(Definiteness). In cases where homophony might 
occur, such as in the past tense, the definiteness distinction is lost so 
that PAR(Person/Number) and CON (Person/Number) can be satisfied. 
Although this analysis is consistent, I wonder if another analysis for the loss 
of the definiteness distinction might also be valid. The Distributed 
Morphology framework (Halle and Marantz 1994) proposes 
that "peripheral" features may be deleted when the feature bundles 
become too complex; this process is called Impoverishment. For instance, 
many Indo-European languages like English show gender in third person 
singular pronouns (he/she/it), but lose gender in plurals (they) and non-
third person forms (I/you/we). The Hungarian case where a peripheral 
feature of definiteness is lost in non-present tenses could be a similar 
phenomenon.

The final article is "A Note on Paradigm Uniformity and Priority of the 
Root," by Suzanne Urbanczyk which analyzes data from verb paradigms in 
Halkomelem, a Salish language of British Columbia using McCarthy's (this 
volume) mechanism of comparing outputs across a paradigm. Like other 
Salish languages, the root vowel of Halkomelem verb stems is reduced to 
schwa, particularly in cases where a CVC root is followed by a CVC suffix. 
In perfective stems though, all forms surface with a schwa, even if the 
ending is not CVC. Urbanczyk argues that this pattern of overapplication 
is a result of a high ranking identity constraint requiring all members of 
a paradigm to have the same base form, even if results in marked reduced 
vowels in the stem. Urbanczyk also discusses the formation of the 
imperfective root from the perfective via reduplication. In other Salish 
languages, the imperfective reduplication preserves any schwa from the 
perfective, but in Halkomelem, the reduplicated syllable surfaces with the 
underlying root vowel. Urbanczyk's proposes that the root vowel is allowed 
to surface as phonologically expected because the imperfective paradigm 
is distinct from the perfective, so the paradigm uniformity constraint does 
not apply in this case.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

This volume is a valuable addition to the research into the morphology-
phonology interface. The data comes from a wide range of languages and 
all of them present serious challenges to any standard derivational theory. 
Paradigm effects appear to be a major family of constraints much like 
faithfulness and markedness. But as most authors of this volume would 
admit, the challenge is to provide a consistent account across all 
languages. One issue is determining the "scope" of paradigm effects. Do 
they apply only within inflectional paradigms (McCarthy) or across 
derivational forms (Davis)? Do complex inflectional paradigms have an 
internal structure (Burzio, BatEl) or are they flat (McCarthy)? With 
questions like these, future researchers will have plenty of analytical 
articles to write.

REFERENCES

Benua, L. (1997, 2000) Transderivational Identity: Phonological Relations 
Between Words. New York: Garland.

Halle, Morris and Marantz, Alec. (1994) Some Key Features of Distributed 
Morphology, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 21: 275-88.

Hebb, D. O. (1949) The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological 
Theory. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Kenstowicz, Michael (1996) Base-Identity and Uniform Exponence: 
Alternatives to Cyclicity in Current Trends in Phonology: Models and 
Methods, J. Durand and B, Laks, eds.,  Manchester: European Studies 
Research Institute, University of Salford.

University of Wales (2004) Geriadur Prifysgol Cymru (Welsh Language 
Dictionary) Concice Online Version 
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/pdf/gpc0015.pdf 

ABOUT THE REVIEWER

Elizabeth Pyatt earned a Ph.D. in linguistics, specializing in Celtic 
phonology, morphology and syntax.





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