The influence of preceding consonant on perceptual epenthesis in Japanese
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چکیده
Research on perceptual epenthesis in Japanese has revealed high back [ɯ] to be the vowel commonly perceived in illicit consonant sequences. However, loanword studies suggest that there are three epenthetic vowels, which reflect phonotactic restrictions on certain consonant + vowel sequences. Expanding previous perception studies, this paper investigates the extent to which perceptual epenthesis in Japanese is also constrained by the language’s phonotactic patterns. In particular, we seek to determine to what extent the preceding consonant influences perceptual epenthesis, reflecting native phonotactics. Our results show that the preceding consonant does influence the vowel perceived yet, at the same time, there is a strong bias toward perceiving [ɯ] in contexts not predicted by the language’s phonotactic patterns.
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