referred to as elision. The word epenthesis comes from epi- 'in addition to' and en- 'in' and thesis 'putting'. Epenthesis may be divided into two types:...
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Vowel hiatus (section Epenthesis)
extra consonant sound. A consonant sound may be added between vowels (epenthesis) to prevent hiatus. That is most often a semivowel or a glottal, but all...
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Old Norse (section Epenthesis)
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into...
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north-western India, are the tendency to shorten long vowels, the practice of epenthesis, or the modification of a vowel by the one which follows in the next syllable...
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from Russian. Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nenets крупа (krupa) > xurupa "cereals" класс (klass) > xalas "class" Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nganasan...
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Pijin language (section Epenthesis)
Pijin (or Solomons Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the...
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described using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Elision Elocution Epenthesis Help:IPA/English — the principal key used in Wikipedia articles to transcribe...
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apocopated in final position after nasals: lamb, long /læm/, /lɒŋ ~ lɔːŋ/. Epenthesis (also known as anaptyxis): The introduction of a sound between two adjacent...
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Belter Creole (section Epenthesis and elision)
Belter Creole, also simply known as Belter (Belter Creole: lang belta), is a constructed language developed by the linguist and polyglot Nick Farmer for...
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
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Portuguese phonology (section Epenthesis)
[ɐðɨˈβɛɾsu], but in southern Portugal there is often no epenthesis, [psikuluˈʒiɐ], [ɐdˈvɛɾsu]. Epenthesis at the end of a word does not normally occur in Portugal...
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diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite, whereby sounds are added, is epenthesis. Synchronic analysis studies linguistic phenomena at one moment of a language's...
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meanma /ˈmʲan̪ˠəmˠə/ ('mind'), ainmhí /ˈanʲəvʲiː/ ('animal'). There is no epenthesis, however, if the vowel preceding the cluster is long or a diphthong: fáirbre...
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Pali (section Epenthesis)
uyyāna Nasals sometimes assimilate to a preceding stop (in other cases epenthesis occurs) Examples: agni (fire) → aggi, ātman (self) → atta, prāpnoti →...
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consonants become ejectives pre-pausa. In Tapieté, epenthesis of [x] occurs when /ɨ/ is in pausa, while epenthesis of [ʔ] occurs when any other vowel is in pausa...
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Maricopa language (section Epenthesis)
non-syllabic consonants never surface without epenthesis. Sequences of two consonants sometimes cause epenthesis, depending on the consonants in question....
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speech may involve the elision of the /d/ from /ndz/ rather than epenthesis in /nz/. Epenthesis of a stop between a nasal and a fricative can also occur in...
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Anastasia Mukhanova Karlsson. "Vowels in Mongolian speech: deletions and epenthesis". Retrieved 2014-07-26. Svantesson et al. (2005): 62–72. Svantesson et...
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while in the UK, the initial "h" is aspirated. [citation needed] orthoepy Epenthesis: The addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior...
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Irish orthography (section Epenthesis)
The main exception to this is ⟨ng⟩ which is mainly used for /ŋ/ or /ɲ/. Epenthesis does not occur after long vowels and diphthongs, e.g. téarma /tʲeːɾˠmˠə/...
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Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡejz bɾaziˈlejɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and...
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Esperanto phonology (section Epenthesis)
because /ij/ and /uŭ/ do not occur in Esperanto (though more general epenthesis could cause confusion between gea and geja, as mentioned above). However...
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Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope...
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central vowels are often inserted to break up consonant clusters (a form of epenthesis). Various Semitic, Cushitic, Berber, and Chadic languages, including Arabic...
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clitics, suffixes, root inflection, ending morphology, elision, sandhi, epenthesis, and assimilation; the beginning, core, and end of words can each change...
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Liquid consonant (section Epenthesis)
/ˈkɜːnel/ pronunciation with the rhotic r, which is absent in writing. Epenthesis, or the addition of sounds, is common in environments where liquids are...
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Retrieved 3 October 2013. Rosen, Eric. "Japanese loanword accentuation: epenthesis and foot form interacting through edge-interior alignment∗" (PDF). University...
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syllable codas Reduction of consonant clusters or breaking them with epenthesis Elimination of aspiration or sound changes Monophthongization is common...
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History of Portuguese (section Epenthesis)
Portuguese ontem [ˈõtẽj̃] (EP, BP, AP) ~ [ˈõtɐ̃j̃] (LEP) (yesterday). Epenthesis—the insertion of a sound to break up a sequence of vowels: arēnam [äˈreːnãˑ]...
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Steele) “A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard”. In Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora, & Diana Cresti...
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