Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis

Puerto Rico

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The dark side of glottal stop epenthesis in German : Comparative markedness and structure preservation

Recent accounts of consonant epenthesis either predict the locus of and give structural motivation for epenthesis (Prince & Smolensky 1993, Alber 2001 among others), such as the requirement for syllables to start in a consonantal onset or the breaking up of a vowel sequence or they explain the choice of segment, i.e., why languages prefer the glottal stop, the coronal stop or some other consona...

Stop Epenthesis at Syll

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Synchronous multicentric osteosarcoma is a very rare condition that might be confused with metastatic osteosarcoma. We report the first pediatric case of synchronous multicentric osteosarcoma reported in the Puerto Rican. The child presented with multiple osteoblastic bone lesions followed by right upper lid ptosis. Orbital CT-Scan showed a lytic lesion involving the sphenoid bone. Management c...