Every language has an organised sound system. Phonology is concerned with processes in the mind, determining the rules of a language and how we organise, study and form sounds in speech. We each have ...

My main research interest is historical phonology, both to reconstruct the sounds of the past and to account for sound change over time. I focus on theories of diachronic phonology which interface ...

This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and ...

Noam Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge, 1988: 190 I am a theroretical linguist. I focus on phonology. I tend to work on very narrow issues, but I like to wax philosophical about their ...