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PostPosted: Sat 26 Jan 2013 9:40 am 
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Read here for some information about this resource.

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If anyone has used this resource, feel free to comment here. When someone is trying to decide which resource would best suit his/her needs, it can be useful to hear what others think.

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PostPosted: Sat 26 Jan 2013 11:15 am 
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This is excellent. Native speakers from representative Gaeltachtaí for the three major dialects. :good:

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PostPosted: Sat 26 Jan 2013 10:48 pm 
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Is that a new site?

Sounds brilliant. :good:

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PostPosted: Sat 26 Jan 2013 10:54 pm 
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Bríd Mhór wrote:
Is that a new site?

Sounds brilliant. :good:
Seems to be brand new - 2013. It was given as a suggestion on another thread to include it in the Learning Resources section. With eagle-eyed members, we are kept well up-to-date on ILF!

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PostPosted: Sat 26 Jan 2013 11:44 pm 
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Cool :) But it looks like they asked the speakers to pronounce written words/forms -- some of these don't always exist in their dialect. So in these cases they had to make pronunciations up, like "to pronounce words as if they existed in their dialect" (there are also unnatural pronunciations, for instance /​ˈ​ɛ​ɟ​#​ˈ​bˠ​ua​.​l̪ˠ​ʉː/ , people don't pronounce the g of "ag" in "ag bualadh", they say "a' bualadh"). I think there were more scientific solutions... :S

There are also strange choices in the phonological symbols, for instance /ɲ/ for slender ng, which is /ŋʲ/. In the IPA, [ ɲ] is the sound of French gn and of Spanish ñ, ie. not the sound of Irish slender ng. In my opinion it would have been less confusing to use /ŋʲ/ and /ŋ'/. In phonology you can use any symbol for any phoneme but to me it's less confusing to use symbols that look as much as possible like the common phonetic realisation of the phoneme.
They also transcribe /​a​#​ˈ​ɾ̥ʲ​eː​d̪ˠ/ /​a​#​ˈ​hrʹ​eː​d/ while the speaker clearly pronounces /x'r'e:d/...
The speakers pronounces "a thrá" as "a chrá" (that's how I hear it now, anyway) ; "his beach" is "a thráigh" in Donegal (beach is tráigh there, not trá). Looks like here again she pronounces what is written but not what she'd say in natural speech.
In other cases, the phonological transcriptions don't correspond to what is said (ex: cáireach, bodhar...)...

The speaker from Gaoth Dobhair doesn't pronounce the slender r's like y's as Gaoth Dobhair speakers normally do (for instance athair, cathair, cáireach... all have the y-sound in natural speech). Is it self-censure? :)

and there are other things like that... Well there are so many things to say that I think I'll write to the author :darklaugh:

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PostPosted: Sun 27 Jan 2013 1:42 pm 
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Lughaidh wrote:
Well there are so many things to say that I think I'll write to the author :darklaugh:


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