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Vowel Epenthesis in Toda Songs [PDF]
Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2021 This study looks at a minor but interesting phonological phenomenon that is vowel epenthesis in Toda songs, a Dravidian language spoken in South India. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the extent to which vowel epenthesis is used to satisfy the poetic meter preferences in songs and verses that are sensitive to the number of syllables per line ...
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Buriat dorsal epenthesis is not reproduced with novel morphemes
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2020 In Buriat, the consonant realized contextually as dorsal or uvular alternates with zero at stem- suffix boundaries. This alternation has been analyzed as phonological epenthesis and has been known as a challenge to the existing theories of phonological ...
Staroverov, Peter
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OCP Effects in Catalan Cliticization
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002 In Catalan, sequences of sibilants are never pronounced as such. In most contexts all varieties coincide in the «strategies» used to avoid these sequences, namely epenthesis or deletion.
Eulàlia Bonet, Maria-Rosa Lloret
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper discusses word-initial (sibilant + consonant) sequences that may or may not be preceded by a vowel in Brazilian Portuguese, as, for example, in escola [isˈkɔlə] ~ [ˈskɔlə] ‘school’ or Skype [isˈkajpi] ~ [ˈskajpi].
Matheus Freitas +1 more
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Coronal epenthesis and markedness [PDF]
Phonology, 2002 Coronals have been claimed to behave as unmarked consonants in epenthesis. However, it is well known that the glottal consonants ([h ʔ]) are frequently epenthetic, and the empirical basis for the claim about coronal epenthesis has been weak, with only a single example commonly cited.
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A MULTIREPRESENTATIONAL APPROACH TO EPENTHESIS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
Gragoatá, 2015 This paper presents a study on epenthesis in Brasilian Portuguese and its interaction with word stress. We focus on the gradient properties of epenthesis both in lexical, structural and phonetic terms.
Maria Mendes Cantoni
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The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers
Laboratory PhonologyMuch previous work has shown that sibilant-initial complex onsets (SC onsets) differ in their typological, phonological, articulatory, and acquisitional properties from other onsets.
Connor Mayer, Noah Khaloo
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Lexicon and word formation in Indonesian Bajo
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2010 This paper1 deals with the phonology and the lexicology of the Indonesian Bajo language and more specifically with the dialect or variant that can be heard all around the Flores Sea in Kangean, South-East Sulawesi, Sumbawa, and Flores.
Chandra Nuraini
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Syllabically Conditioned Perceptual Epenthesis
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2003 Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Baris Kabak, William Idsardi
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Journal of Phonetics, 1986 Some phonologists have claimed that the insertion of a stop between a sonorant and a fricative consonant in syllable-final sonorant–fricative clusters follows from universal constraints on the human speech perception and production mechanism. Others have claimed that the intrusive stops are products of language or dialect specific phonological rules ...
Marios Fourakis, Robert Port
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