How To Use Epenthesis In A Sentence
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the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word `bush' is epenthesis
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This epenthesis often shows up even when Sicilians speak Italian.
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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.
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Prothesis and anaptyxis are often called simply ‘vowel’ or ‘schwa epenthesis’.
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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.
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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
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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
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I assume we know the correct hidden structure (like foot structure) and the correct underlying forms (no epenthesis or deletion or lexical stress).
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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
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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
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Maybe I could observe that epenthesis happens as a rule in English plural formations when the singular form of a word ends in an "s" sound; thus the plural of kiss is not kiss-s but kisses.
Archive 2007-05-01
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So ideally you want to find a noun with a-epenthesis that will correspond in root with a verb, and see what happens?
Phonotactic processes during Syncope in Pre-IE
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I notice that Mongolian also has a similar process of left-to-right schwa epenthesis however this seems to occur to resolve clustering in the coda not the onset.
Phonotactic processes during Syncope in Pre-IE
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This epenthesis is seen elsewhere, as in Herecele where its Greek origin emphasizes that this phonetic process did indeed happen.
Archive 2008-04-01
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In other words, epenthesis is likely to be unnecessary.
I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
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Epenthesis also occurs after medial m in some words: for example, Latin camera and numerus became French chambre and nombre, English chamber and number.
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So, it seems to me that while Metathesis occurred in positions after the stress accent to remedy awkward syllabification, a-Epenthesis the left-to-right insertion of *a occurred in positions *before* the stress accent.
Phonotactic processes during Syncope in Pre-IE
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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
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Unlike a totally unproven epenthesis, rules concerning sonorancy prove its absence in at least one case.
I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
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This, by an aphaeresis of tau and an epenthesis of omicron in two places, may be identified with echonoe, and signifies
Cratylus
