This article has two goals: descriptive and theoretical. On the side, presents a grammar of gliding epenthesis Upper Sorbian. The goal is worthy because Sorbian highly complex but regular productive system epenthesis. stands out from typological point view it ten [ sic ] different strategies to satisfy O nset . theoretical question whether Optimality Theory that been designed solve conspiracies...

The present study investigates whether native speakers of German phonetically accommodate to natural and synthetic voices in a shadowing experiment. We aim determine this phenomenon, which is frequently found HHI, also occurs HCI involving speech. examined features pertain different phonetic domains: allophonic variation, schwa epenthesis, realization pitch accents, word-based temporal structur...

Vowel sounds may be inserted into a word by two mechanisms: insertion of a vocalic articulatory gesture (epenthesis), or retiming of existing gestures to produce a vowel-like transition between consonants (intrusion). I argue that epenthetic vowels are phonological units but intrusive vowels are not. A representation using abstract gestures as well as segments can capture facts about the typolo...

A salient characteristic of English spoken by native Japanese is th tendency to produce intrusive vowels between consonants or following wordnal consonants (e.g., English \stress" as /su.to.re.su/). This study conducted speech analysis of a large set of Japanese-accented English utterances to evaluate the e ects of various factors on vowel epenthesis. Results reveal e ects of speaking rate and ...

This paper proposes a new deletion analysis of [t]-zero alternations in Ajyíninka Apurucayali (often cited as 'Axininca Campa'). It is argued that the analysis assuming /t/-deletion fares better than an insertion analysis in two respects. First, the insertion analysis predicts an unattested stem type for verbs. Second, the insertion analysis fails to capture a generalization about hiatus resolu...

Virtually all the literature on French Schwa assumes that schwa deletion and epenthesis are categorical phenomena. This paper is an attempt to challenge this traditional view. After reviewing the evidence in favour of the non-categorical nature of (word-final) schwa, we propose a novel account framed within representational Optimality Theory (OT). It is argued that non-categorical schwa emerges...

Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) proposed that children demonstrate early sensitivity to word-minimality effects, exhibiting a period of vowel lengthening or vowel epenthesis if coda consonants cannot be produced. This paper evaluates this proposal by examining t...

One of the central problems in creole studies is the nature of the processes that are involved in creolization. This paper investigates this issue with regard to the restructuring of the syllable in the genesis of one English-based creole, Sranan. In the emergence of Sranan, as in that of many other creoles, we can observe the restructuring of syllables through epenthesis and deletion of segmen...