The lexicon of English contains a number words which developed emergent stops, mostly p , b t d . Some these have functioned as variants forms without such stops (cf. OE endleofan ~ enlefan or gandra ganra ) but in most cases they prevail Present-day English, exemplified by nimol > ModE nimble æmtig empty present study examines the process labial stop epenthesis from perspective diachrony an...

The phenomenon of loanword incorporation has long proved an intriguing object of study. Recent developments at the phonetics/phonology interface have generated renewed interest in the mechanisms of loanword adaptation, raising questions about the possible representational versus phonetic underpinnings of this process. This paper examines aspects of English and Afrikaans loanword incorporation i...

this article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of sistani persian spoken in iranian sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. a representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. while assimilation and dissimilation a...

Abstract This paper provides a new explanation for the insertion of * in plural forms CVCC- nouns also formed with an external suffix, e.g. ʕabd- : ʕabad-ū- ‘servant(s)’, various Semitic languages. CVCaC-ū- pattern is usually considered to be remnant Proto-Semitic broken system Northwest Semitic, but we show that it goes back this form. Internal evidence from as well comparative Afroasiatic poi...