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The value of Irish schwa: An acoustic analysis of epenthetic vowels
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017 This study was conducted in an effort to learn more about the phonology of the Irish language. The research is intended to be a phonetic analysis of one of the phonological processes characteristic to Celtic languages.
McCullough, Kerry
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Epenthetic vowel production of unfamiliar medial consonant clusters by Japanese speakers
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 Existing nativized loanword studies have traditionally suggested that there are three epenthetic vowels in Japanese, which reflect both phonotactic restrictions and articulatory properties of certain consonant-vowel sequences in the language.
Elizabeth Hume +2 more
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Effects of phonotactic predictability on sensitivity to phonetic detail
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 Japanese speakers systematically devoice or delete high vowels [i, u] between two voiceless consonants. Japanese listeners also report perceiving the same high vowels between consonant clusters even in the absence of a vocalic segment.
James Whang
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An OT Approach to Loanword Adaptation in Cairene Arabic
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004 Cairene Arabic (CA) elects epenthesis as a strategy for adapting loanwords. This paper tackles the reasons why this occurs as well as the different aspects of vowel epenthesis within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT)(McCarthy and Prince, 1993 ...
Galal, Mohamed
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English and Portuguese consonant clusters: contrasts and challenges [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020 Consonant clusters occur both in Portuguese and English. However, clusters are more productive in English than in Portuguese and there are sequences which are only found in English.This study focuses on the contrasts between American English and ...
Sandra Madureira
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Verbal Suppletion in Romance Synchrony and Diachrony: The Perspective of Distributed Morphology
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 117, Issue 3, Page 471-497, November 2019., 2019 Abstract This article studies the various suppletive patterns found with respect to the Romance movement verb go, both under a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). The Romance varieties all started with the loss of verbal forms of Lat.
Natascha Pomino, Eva‐Maria Remberger
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 19-38, March 2026.Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
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Nature and Functions of Vowel Epenthesis in Yoruba Loanwords
International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, 2023 Vowel epenthesis processes vary in their characteristics, and many aspects of their typology are still under continuous study even in English, wherein a lot of academic work has been done, much less so in Yoruba and other African languages where a large part of academic research on the phenomenon is still evolving.
null Dr. Michael Olugbenga Ajileye +2 more
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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker +2 more
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Vowel Epenthesis in Final Consonant Clusters of Azerbaijani Turkish [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2015 This article studies vowel epenthesis in final consonant clusters in Azerbaijani Turkish within Optimality Theory. Final consonant clusters are licensed in some words in Azerbaijani yet in others a vowel is inserted within final consonant clusters. This
Seyyed Mohammad Razinejad
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