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Multiple Sources of Surprisal Affect Illusory Vowel Epenthesis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Illusory epenthesis is a phenomenon in which listeners report hearing a vowel between a phonotactically illegal consonant cluster, even in the complete absence of vocalic cues.
James Whang
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Gradual Vowel Epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic
Languages, 2021 In this paper, vowel epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic is analysed as a process of gradual structural build-up. Harmonic Serialism, a derivational framework of Optimality Theory, provides the theoretical foundation to illustrate the arguments.
Faisal M Al-Mohanna
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Vowel Epenthesis in English Loanwords in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2016 In Persian, consonant clusters are avoided in onset position. So in the case of lexical borrowing, when word formation violates the phonotactic rules, and makes a consonant or vowel cluster, Persian resolves the onset cluster by epenthesis, deletion, and
Zahra Esmaili Matin +1 more
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Facilitatory Effects of Vowel Epenthesis on Word Processing in Dutch [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 1999 Four experiments examined the effects on word processing of insertion of an optional epenthetic vowel in word-final consonant clusters in Dutch. Such epenthesis turns film for instance into fillem. In a word reversal task listeners treated words with and without epenthesis alike, as monosyllables, suggesting that the variant forms do not have separate ...
Anne Cutler
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Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015 It is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their ...
Cristina Bălan
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Which epenthetic vowel? Phonetic categories versus acoustic detail in perceptual vowel epenthesis [PDF]
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017 This study aims to quantify the relative contributions of phonetic categories and acoustic detail on phonotactically induced perceptual vowel epenthesis in Japanese listeners. A vowel identification task tested whether a vowel was perceived within illegal consonant clusters and, if so, which vowel was heard.
Isabelle Lin +2 more
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Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions: the case of Arabic epenthesis
Cogent Arts and HumanitiesVowel epenthesis and stress patterns in Arabic dialects vary widely; understanding their interaction is crucial for phonological theory. This study investigates how different Arabic dialects handle medial CCC clusters and how stress assignment interacts ...
Abdullah Alfaifi
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Consonant Insertion Process in Tabrizi Dialect within Optimality Theory Framework [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 This article examines the process of consonant epenthesis in Azerbaijani Turkish language (Tabrizi dialect) based on optimality theory (standard approach).
Solmaz Khorram +3 more
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On the Vowel Epenthesis and Epithesis in Turkish Texts in the Manuscripts of Lithuanian Tatars
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023 Adding a vowel that is not in the original of a word to that word for various reasons is called vowel derivation. There is no morphological reason for vowel derivation and it aims to facilitate the pronunciation.
Hüseyin Durgut
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Phonological Adaptation of Loanwords in Azarbaijani Turkish Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 This study presents an overview of phonological adaptation of loanwords in Azerbaijani Turkish Language by breaking up the initial clusters. The syllable structure of Azerbaijani Turkish Language is CV(C)(C). That is ONSET is obligatory in this language,
Roshan Babaalipour +2 more
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