Gradual Vowel Epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic

The predictability of vowel alternations in Urban Hijazi Arabic imperfective nonce forms

Vowel epenthesis, acoustics and phonology patterns in Moroccan Arabic

In Moroccan Arabic it is widely accepted that short vowels are mostly elided, resulting in consonant clusters and consonant geminates. In this paper we present evidence from our exploratory timing study that challenges this widely accepted principle. We work with minimal pairs of singleton consonants vs. geminates (e.g. /bka/ vs. /b kka/) that reveals a presence of a vowel insertion between the...

Vowel-Epenthesis Patterns in Loanword Adaptation of Initial sC Clusters in Najdi Arabic

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...

Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers' L2 English

This study investigated how vowel epenthesis, a typical suprasegmental error produced by Japanese learners of English, is realized in their speech production of L2 English. We investigated two aspects: (i) whether loanword epenthesis phonology in Japanese transfers to English speech production, and (ii) how learners’ English proficiency level affects vowel epenthesis. In Japanese loanword phono...

Vowel epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A preliminary investigation