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Vowel Epenthesis in Arabic Loanwords in Hausa

International Journal of Linguistics, 2015
<p>Vowel epenthesis is discussed in this paper as a phonological process utilized to avoid codas in Arabic loanwords in Hausa language in light of Optimality Theory (OT), as an analytical framework, even though this language permits codas in heavy syllables of the form CVC  (Caron, 2011). This process results in having disyllabic, trisyllabic, or
MUFLEH ALQAHTANI, Rebecca Musa
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Persian speakers of English: Acoustics of vowel epenthesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015
This study results from the need to develop further understanding into the process of vowel epenthesis which is often observed with second language learners. The purpose of this study was to examine the epenthetic vowels produced by Persian speakers of English to determine the acoustical characteristics and to ascertain if these vowels were ...
Christina C. Akbari, Katsura Aoyama, James Dembowski   +2 more
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Vowel Epenthesis in Aphasia

1990
Vowel epenthesis has been most adequately described using nonlinear phonology approaches. It has been shown that vowel insertion is predictable from the syllabic constraints imposed in a specific language. Halle and Vergnaud (1978) considered vowel epenthesis, as a rule, applied to fill empty nodes created in derivation.
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On vowel epenthesis in Alguer Catalan

1996
A process of sandhi epenthesis occurring in the Catalan dialect of L’Alguer is described. This process, it is argued, although syllable driven, cannot be derived from general constraints on syllabification holding in the language. Rather, is better conceived of as a postlexical phonological rule, ordered before postlexical resyllabification.
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Gradual Epenthesis: Echo Vowels in Austronesian Languages

Oceanic Linguistics, 2014
Couched in Harmonic Serialism, this paper uses as examples echo vowel epenthesis in four Austronesian languages—Budai Rukai, Maga Rukai, Selayarese, and Rarotongan—to demonstrate that epenthesis, like many other phonological phenomena, involves gradual, harmonically improving derivations.
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Vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation: Representational and phonetic considerations

Lingua, 2006
The phenomenon of loanword incorporation has long proved an intriguing object of study. Recent developments at the phonetics/phonology interface have generated renewed interest in the mechanisms of loanword adaptation, raising questions about the possible representational versus phonetic underpinnings of this process.
Yvan Rose, Katherine Demuth
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Hittite vowel epenthesis and the sonority hierarchy

Diachronica, 2001
Summary This study examines the distribution of non-etymological vowels in Hittite and shows that non-etymological a is used in contexts where syllabification problems are not expected, suggesting that a is purely orthographic and brought on only by the practices of the cuneiform writing system.
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VOWEL EPENTHESIS AND SEGMENT IDENTITY IN KOREAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Recent literature has sought to understand the presence of epenthetic vowels after the productions of postvocalic word-final consonants by second language (L2) learners whose first languages (L1s) restrict the presence of obstruents in coda position. Previous models include those in which epenthesis is seen as a strategy to mitigate the effects of coda
Kenneth de Jong, Hanyong Park
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Vowel epenthesis in productions of English consonant clusters by Japanese

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999
Phonotactic contraints on syllable structure vary across languages. Japanese has a more restricted set of consonant clusters (e.g., ‘‘honda’’) than English (e.g., ‘‘instruct’’). This presents a problem for Japanese learners of English, who often avoid consonant clusters by inserting epenthetic vowels between consonants.
Keiichi Tajima, Rieko Kubo
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Significance of vowel epenthesis in Telugu text-to-speech synthesis

2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
Unit selection synthesis inventories have coverage issues, which lead to missing syllable or diphone units. In the conventional back-off strategy of substituting the missing unit with approximate unit(s), the rules for approximate matching are hard to derive.
Vijayaditya Peddinti, Kishore Prahallad
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