Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
> The classic case is among Romance linguistics, where some people have
> tried to claim that some peculiar features (the which I forget
> off the top of my head) of French and Italian are the result of
> interactions with continental Celtic substrate,
IIRC the argument is that French (and Gallo-Romance varieties of
Italian) acquired front rounded vowels from the Celtic substrate.
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