Prosodic identity in copy epenthesis

Prosodic well-formedness and sonority constraints: epenthesis in Irish

1. Introduction Early accounts of epenthesis in Optimality Theory focused on epenthesis that results from constraints on prosodic structure, that is, from syllable structure constraints or minimal prosodic category (e.g. minimal word) requirements. McCarthy & Prince (1993a) account for word-internal consonant epenthesis at V-V junctures in Axininca Campa, for example, by ranking ONSET (Syllable...

Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology

2. Correspondence Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 The Role and Character of Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Some Constraints on Correspondent Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Correspondence Theory an...

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