1 / 28

Ireland

Ireland. Ireland. Iceland and Ireland on the same scale. 103,000 km². 84,412 km². N.I. 1.8 m R.I. 4.5 m 73 /km. 317.000 3 /km . Ireland. North and South. Northern Ireland, still a part of the UK The Republic of Ireland, Eire, independent since 1921. Provinces and Counties.

dooley
Télécharger la présentation

Ireland

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ireland

  2. Ireland

  3. Iceland and Ireland on the same scale

  4. 103,000 km² 84,412 km² N.I. 1.8 m R.I. 4.5 m 73 /km 317.000 3 /km

  5. Ireland • North and South. • Northern Ireland, still a part of the UK • The Republic of Ireland, Eire, independent since 1921

  6. Provinces and Counties http://www.spirited-ireland.net/map/_counties/

  7. http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/geography/settlement.htmlhttp://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/geography/settlement.html

  8. Ireland • North and South. • “Northern Ireland” or Ulster, still a part of the UK • Ireland or Eire, independent since 1921 • Two different origins of English in the North and the South,both dating from the 17th century. • South: Anglo-Irish (mostly from Western England) • North: displaced Scots

  9. Ireland • For the early period, 17th-18th cent the English of the North and South were cut off by a band of Irish across the middle of the country. • Both fully rhotic: • alveolar or retroflex approx (not the Scottish roll ) • General lack of dark l (unlike Scottish)

  10. Northern Ireland • Consonants: • þ and ð occur (not as in South) • So no t-þ and d-ð merging • Fully rhotic, not rolled • Lack of dark l

  11. Northern Ireland • Vowels • Vowel system closer to Scottish English. • GOOSE and FOOT merged • TRAP and PALM merged (no TRAP-BATH split) • LOT and THOUGHT merged

  12. Northern Ireland • Vowels • Loss of phonemic vowel-length distinction: Aitken's Law rather than Lax/Tense and clipping • Recap Aitken's Law : except - always short

  13. Northern Ireland • Vowels • Aitken's Law in N.Ireland is slightly different: except - always short

  14. Northern Ireland • Vowels

  15. Northern Ireland • Vowels

  16. Northern Ireland • Vowels

  17. Northern Ireland • Vowels

  18. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • Norse spoken in and around medieval Dublin • English spoken in Ireland (The Pale) since around 1200 – settlers from Bristol • Present-day English is from the ‘planters’ of the 17th century – predominantly from SW England • Very conservative: very few traces of later British innovations

  19. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • The 'brogue' • (barróg 'accent, speech impediment, or bróg =shoe (from Norse brók) • Very conservative: very few traces of later British innovations • No FLEECE Merging • No BATH Broadening • No H Dropping • No Glide Cluster Reduction • No Move towards R Dropping (unlike England)

  20. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • Irish substratum: • vowel system basically Irish (Wells 410) • some substratum effects in the consonants too, but English consonants such as and z, which do not occur in Irish, have been added • Syntactic substratum: Sure I’m after tellin you It’s thinking I am you’ll be hungry

  21. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • Vowels • Unrounding of • LOOK-STRUT Split, uncertain in places, but not with the same lexical incidents • is a back unrounded centralised • TRAP is [a] • any, many with TRAP, = Annie, manny. • No Long Mid Diphthonging: • FACE, GOAT fe:s go:t • KIT-Schwa MErger (Lenin-Lennon)

  22. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • Consonants • Þ and ð become dental stops t and d • (this is heard by other British speakers as t and d, but outside Dublin there is a distinction between thin and tin, breathe and breed. • Lenition of medial (=between vowels) and final consonants, esp /t/, to [t ] or even[h] • nah01tAl 1sah0rde • (graphic follows)

  23. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic

  24. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic • Rhotic: r is dark, even retroflex • l is light in all environments • No H Dropping • Scwa epenthesis: Dublin, petrol, Cathleen, film, form, tavern. • Broad and narrow consonants

  25. Southern Ireland – the Irish Republic

More Related