Epenthesis

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.

Cluster-Dependent Epenthesis Asymmetries

Anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries, common in loanword adaptation and interlanguage phonology, are characterized by vowel insertion before sibilant + stop clusters, but into obstruent + sonorant clusters. I propose that such patterns reflect an epenthesis strategy in which the site of epenthesis is chosen to maximize perceptual similarity between input and output. Experimental evidence in support ...

Coronal epenthesis and markedness

Stop epenthesis at syllable boundaries

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.

[t]-epenthesis revisited. The case of Apurucayali

This paper proposes a new deletion analysis of [t]-zero alternations in Ajyíninka Apurucayali (often cited as 'Axininca Campa'). It is argued that the analysis assuming /t/-deletion fares better than an insertion analysis in two respects. First, the insertion analysis predicts an unattested stem type for verbs. Second, the insertion analysis fails to capture a generalization about hiatus resolu...