epenthesis

How To Use epenthesis In A Sentence

• the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word `bush' is epenthesis
• This epenthesis often shows up even when Sicilians speak Italian.
• Data were categorized as accurately produced, produced with modifications (epenthesis or feature change), or absent, which meant that one or more of the consonants in the coda were not produced.
• Prothesis and anaptyxis are often called simply ‘vowel’ or ‘schwa epenthesis’.
• It all depends which side of the pond one happens to be on: Britons accuse Americans of haplology while the latter believe it is the former who are committing epenthesis.
• I might also be interested to find out that vowel insertion is widespread enough in the world's languages to have a name, epenthesis also called anaptyxis. Archive 2007-05-01
• Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear. The Romance of Names
• I assume we know the correct hidden structure (like foot structure) and the correct underlying forms (no epenthesis or deletion or lexical stress).
• So... we see that offending verbs like these did not survive intact and yet were not resolved by metathesis or epenthesis. Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you
• Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear. The Romance of Names