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 ...

The linguistics faculty in the University of Nevada, Reno's Department of English conduct research in many sub-fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics (the relationship between social ...

Linguists interested in language structure consider the formal properties of language, including word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), speech sounds and the rules and patterns ...