The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated
change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the …

ASR systems are generally built for the spoken'standard', and their performance declines for
non-standard dialects/varieties. This is a problem for a language like Irish, where there is no …

This study investigated the role of language exposure in vocabulary acquisition in Irish, a
threatened minority language in Ireland which is usually acquired with English in a bilingual …

This article analyses narratives presented by teenage Irish‐speakers about encounters
between new speakers of Irish and locals in Gaeltacht (traditionally Irish‐speaking) areas. It …

This article analyses the findings of a study which investigated the hypothesis—based thus
far on anecdotal evidence—that Irish speakers in traditional Gaeltacht areas do not accept …

Aims and objectives: This article reports the ideologies on linguistic variation among a
cohort of new speaker teachers (NSTs) of Irish. It investigates responses to the three main …

Language revival often retains founding overt beliefs rooted in an ideological commitment to
a specific language because of its role as the authentic, legitimate cultural vehicle of a …

Although traditional, unitary models of language standardisation have been prominent in
minority languages, it is contended that this approach reproduces dominant language …

This essay will address some aspects of language change in contemporary Gaelic and their
relationship to the simultaneous workings of language shift and language revitalisation. I …

Target varieties for language learning are contentious in applied linguistics and
sociolinguistics. Debates centre on the nature and utility of alternative norms. Approximation …