Perceptual Similarity in Korean Vowel Epenthesis

Individual Differences in Vowel Epenthesis among Korean Learners of English

The aim of this study was to investigate individual differences in vowel epenthesis among Korean L2 speakers of English, and its relationship to other measures of segmental and suprasegmental processing. Thirty-two subjects completed a battery of production and perception tasks: spoken target words that were likely to have epenthetic vowels, read sentences, epenthetic vowel perception, identifi...

Which epenthetic vowel? Phonetic categories versus acoustic detail in perceptual vowel epenthesis.

This study aims to quantify the relative contributions of phonetic categories and acoustic detail on phonotactically induced perceptual vowel epenthesis in Japanese listeners. A vowel identification task tested whether a vowel was perceived within illegal consonant clusters and, if so, which vowel was heard. Cross-spliced stimuli were used in which vowel coarticulation present in the cluster di...

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

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...