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 ...

Please note that we may refer to a sound as being broad or slender. This means that it has broad, or slender vowels. A broad vowel is one of the vowels a, o, u. A slender vowel is either i or e.

There is a common theory that broad and slender endings can be used to denote the gender of a noun, if it ends in a broad consonant it’s masculine and if it ends in a slender consonant it’s ...