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Old French Epenthesis and Syllabic Structure

open access: yes, 1980
In a provocative article in a recent issue of this journal, Walker (1978) accounts for Old French (OF) alternations of the type ancestre: ancessour, mendre: menour, prendre:prenons, and cosdre: cousons with a synchronic rule of consonant epenthesis given
Rajendra Singh
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Stop Epenthesis in English

open access: yesJournal 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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Spanish Epenthesis: Formal and Preformance Perspectives

open access: yes, 2001
Epenthesis of /e/ before sC- clusters in Spanish is documented word-initially (e.g., eJfera) as well as in word-internal contexts (e.g., subestimar). Cases of alternating epenthesis also exist (e.g., arteriosclerosis I arterioeclerosis).
Eddington, David
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Helping Japanese learners with pronunciation: tackling epenthesis and paragoge

open access: yes, 2007
This paper describes how Japanese learners tend to use epenthesis and paragoge when attempting to produce consonant clusters and consonants in word final position. It opposes the position that epenthesis and paragoge enhance comprehensibility, suggesting
テイラー, クレア, Taylor, Clair
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The Morphological Nativization of French Loanwords in the Djelfa Dialect with Special Reference to some Phonological Processes Targeting it within OT

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2016
Algerian Arabic, in general, and the Djelfa dialect, in particular, are receptive to French words. But such borrowing is not unsystematic as they are adapted in a way compatible with the morphological and phonological system of the recipient dialect as ...
Slimani Khedidja
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis

open access: yes, 2016
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154).This dissertation concerns cluster-dependent asymmetries in ...
Yun, Suyeon, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Optimality Theoretic Account of Acquisition of Consonant Clusters of English Syllables by Persian EFL Learners [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2010
This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners.
Ali Akbar Jabbari, Leila Arghavan
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