The dark side of glottal stop epenthesis in German : Comparative markedness and structure preservation
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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 consonant (Lombardi 2002) in a given environment (Uffmann in press). However, in some languages the epenthetic consonant has a special status: Because of its restricted distribution it is assumed not to be part of the underlying inventory of the language in question. One such case is the glottal stop in German, which occurs only in simple onsets in wordand foot-initial position (Wiese 2000, Alber 2001), as shown in (1ad). The glottal stop is not found in other potential environments, such as in onsets of unstressed syllables, complex onsets or codas (1e-g). This sets this segment apart from the other stops in this language (p,t,k).
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تاریخ انتشار 2005