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Titre :	Questions of H in Nothern Ireland : Breathing New Life on the Aspiration Theory (2006)
Auteurs :	Joan RAHILLY, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Etudes irlandaises (Vol 31 n 2 2006)
Article en page(s) :	p. 47-61
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	IRLANDE DU NORD LANGUE LANGUE ANGLAISE LANGUE IRLANDAISE SOCIOLOGIE
Résumé :	This paper considers existing ideas concerning pronunciation of the letter name for (LNH) in Northern Irish English (NIE). Traditionally, the status of LNH realisation as an ethnic marker has gone unquestioned. The phonetic difference between these realisations in consistently described as word-initial aspiration versus non-aspiration, with aspiration attributed exclusively to Irish language influence. Here, we show that an explanation based on aspiration alone is phonologically unsatisfying and question whether aspiration is, in fact, an Irish language or ethnically dictated phenomenon. It is further suggested here that the overwhelming stigmatisation of LNH realisation may be responsible for blocking a potential sound change in NIE. While this paper is not intended as a detailed account of ethnolinguistic differences in NI phonology, it engages critically with the over-simplistic and widespread notion that LNH realisation is a result of transfer from the Irish language to the English used by Catholics in Nothern Ireland
Pays de publication :	France
Lieu de publication :	Villeneuve d'Ascq
Mention de responsabilité :	Joan Rahilly
Fonds :	Médiathèque