{"id":698,"date":"2011-08-12T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=698"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:01:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:01:22","slug":"slender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=698","title":{"rendered":":Slender consonant:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Irish most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1663\">consonants <\/a>in the inventory have two forms: slender (the Irish word is <em>caol  <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ki\u02d0\u026b<\/strong><\/span>) and broad (<em>leathan <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8lah\u0259n<\/strong><\/span> in Irish).  The difference between these is usually described in terms of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2892\">palatalisation <\/a>for the former and lack of it for the latter.  The situation is considerably more complex than that, however.  For non-derived <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1100\">labial <\/a>consonants, palatalised vs non-palatalised is phonetically accurate.  However, for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3831\">lin\u0261ual <\/a>consonants the differences are greater than presence vs absence of palatalisation.  For example broad s = <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>s<\/strong><\/span>, whereas slender s = <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0283<\/strong><\/span>.  The situation is even more complex with consonants derived from a mutation process.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2601\">lenited <\/a>form of <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d<\/strong><\/span>, for example, is <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>j<\/strong><\/span> when slender, but <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0263<\/strong><\/span> when broad. Even for labial articulations, the simple story breaks down when it comes to derived forms in some Irish accents.  The lenited from of <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b<\/strong><\/span>, for instance, is <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>v\u02b2<\/strong><\/span> when slender, but <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>w<\/strong><\/span> when broad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Irish most of the consonants in the inventory have two forms: slender (the Irish word is caol ki\u02d0\u026b) and broad (leathan \u02c8lah\u0259n in Irish). The difference between these is usually described in terms of palatalisation for the former and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698\/revisions\/5074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}