Coronal epenthesis and markedness

Coronal epenthesis and markedness

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...

Systemic Markedness and Faithfulness

1 Introduction Phonological patterns, whether viewed synchronically or as they change over time, can be explained only with reference to the larger system of oppositions that they are part of. This was the fundamental insight of modern phonology at the beginning of the last century, as it developed under the hands of de Saussure, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, and others, in opposition to the atomistic ...

Logic & Markedness

The purpose of this essay is to establish the validity of the following four propositions. 1. The assumption that symbolic logic is valid a priori is false, as are the corollaries implicit in this assumption, namely, that symbolic logic is the one and only logic; that it is the logic of effective practical reasoning and action; and, that it is the logic that governs natural language. 2. Typolog...

Stop Epenthesis at Syll

This paper investigates the production and perception of epenthetic stops at syllable boundaries in Dutch and compares the experimental data with lexical statistics for Dutch and English. This extends past work on epenthesis in coda position [1]. The current work is particularly informative regarding the question of phonotactic constraints’ influence on parsing of speech variability.