@ARTICLE{Buczek-Zawiła_Anita_Nasals_2014,
 author={Buczek-Zawiła, Anita},
 volume={vol. 35},
 journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA},
 pages={7-23},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2014},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach},
 abstract={Nasal consonants feature in phonological systems of both Polish and Welsh, yet, apparently, they are active in a different manner and to a different degree. The paper aims first at establishing the ‘players’ – the prototypical segments and their nonprototypical variants. The relevant inventories seem to be comparable, however, the contextually and non-contextually dependent realizations vary considerably in the two systems. Polish nasal consonants do not appear to have terribly complex phonology, their occurrence and phonotactics seems to be dictated through use (Bybee, 2001). Nasal segments in Welsh, on the other hand, are actively involved in the alternation of Initial Consonant Mutation, where they occur as strengthened equivalents of plosives through (possibly) assimilation (Buczek, 1995). It remains to be discovered whether nasals in general (and the so-called voiceless nasals in particular) are independent categories or rather, additionally they feature as nonprototypical variants of plosives. There is, indeed, substantial overlap here. Secondly, the paper looks at certain instances of what appears to be sonorant lenition in Welsh, where nasals [m] and [n] are broken into complex consonantal diphthongs [mh] and [nh] respectively (Pilch, 1975). In its entirety, this paper examines the two systems, hinting at the similarities and exploring the points of difference, especially in cases where the similar phonetic realizations possibly result from different categorical membership.},
 type={Article},
 title={Nasals as radial categories in Polish and Welsh: an attempt at comparison},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118300/PDF-MASTER/01_Buczek-Zawila.pdf},
}