This study accounts for Korean /n/-epenthesis from a usage-based perspective, by describing the reduced productivity of epenthesis as an analogical change in progress. We found that epenthesis probability rises as whole-word frequency increases, supporting the hypothesis that analogical change begins in lowfrequency words (Bybee 2002). We interpret the findings as support for the idea that freq...

Problems emerging from previous analyses of epenthesis in Japanese verbal endings are discussed and a crucial relationship between epenthesis and assimilation is argued. The focus is on the occurrence of /i/-epenthesis with certain root-final consonants. The analysis, which incorporates the view that assimilation is accomplished by means of autosegmental spreading, illustrate* that epenthesis c...

The aim of this study was to investigate individual differences in vowel epenthesis among Korean L2 speakers of English, and its relationship to other measures of segmental and suprasegmental processing. Thirty-two subjects completed a battery of production and perception tasks: spoken target words that were likely to have epenthetic vowels, read sentences, epenthetic vowel perception, identifi...

This study investigated how vowel epenthesis, a typical suprasegmental error produced by Japanese learners of English, is realized in their speech production of L2 English. We investigated two aspects: (i) whether loanword epenthesis phonology in Japanese transfers to English speech production, and (ii) how learners’ English proficiency level affects vowel epenthesis. In Japanese loanword phono...

The present study investigates the influence of phonetic factors on the frequency of vowel epenthesis in the German speech of Chinese learners. The subjects were intermediate learners of German who entered Germany within five months of their study. Descriptive statistics were performed on the data collected from reading tasks, and phonetic analysis was provided to explain the phenomenon of epen...

ing away from the role of PARSE-SYLL in the results derived immediately above, the ranking arguments giving the partial metrical transparency result in Selayarese are summarized as follows. (59) Summary of Ranking Arguments •ALIGN-R (PrWd, {F}) » HEAD-DEP: Epenthesis does not yield preantepenultimate stress: sahalákku, not sá:halakku •HEAD-DEP » ALIGN-R (F, PrWd): Epenthesis into final syllable...

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...

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...

In (1a), an epenthetic vowel is inserted in a word-final cluster: /melk/ → melex. In (1b), [ ] deletes in the coda position. As shown in (1c), the interaction of the epenthesis and deletion has been traditionally analyzed in terms of the counter-bleeding order: UR /des / first undergoes the epenthesis and then the epenthesized intermediate form [des e ] undergoes -deletion, deriving the surface...