Resumen de Revisiting the Celtic nasal sonorants
The article presents some new insights into the Celtic development of the inherited nasal sonorants that modify the reconstruction offered in Die Vertretung der indogermanischen liquiden und nasalen Sonanten im Keltischen (Innsbruck 1987). The new reconstruction not only identifies a unitary, Common-Celtic vocalization, but also explains the Goidelic realizations of the sonorants in a very simple way by taking into account word-stress position, phonetic context and relative chronology. It appears that the inherited nasal sonorants did not vocalize at once, but in at least two different Celtic stages, as it was the case with several other sound-changes. Although this paper’s main concern is to revise the vocalization of the so-called ‘short’ nasal sonorants, it also recapitulates the developments of the ‘long nasal sonorants, i.e., those accompanied by an Indo-European laryngeal.