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	Kanyen’kéha Linguistics: the punctual suffix ’
		Mohawk epenthetic vowels are special because under most circumstances, they do not receive an accent, nor are they counted as a syllable when assigning the accent to a word (more on this below).
		The epenthetic vowel e is added between two consonants which are not permitted to appear side-by-side.
		The accent is on the second-to-last stress-bearing vowel.
	www.languagegeek.com /kanienkeha/linguistics/punctual.html (855 words)

	Vowel harmony - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Non-initially, the neutral vowels are transparent to and unaffected by vowel harmony.
		Vowel harmony is present in all Yokutsan languages and dialects.
		For example, a stem must contain all high rounded vowels or all low rounded vowels, etc. This restriction is further complicated by (i) long high vowels being lowered and (ii) an epenthetic vowel [i] which does not harmonize with stem vowels.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Vowel_harmony (2237 words)

	Epenthesis Encyclopedia Article @ Coulda.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In ɯ and paragogic vowel, epenthesis (Greek epi "on" + en "in" + thesis "putting") is the insertion of a consonant, a vowel, or a whole syllable into a word, usually to facilitate pronunciation.
		In 1 Epenthetic vowels, the letter "t" is inserted in inverted interrogative phrases between a verb ending in a vowel and a pronoun beginning with a vowel, such as in "y a-t-il" (meaning "is there...?").
		One epenthetic vowel is the preceding vowel, found in the Savo ending -(h)*n, e.g.
	www.coulda.net /encyclopedia/Epenthesis (992 words)

	Burundi encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Burundi politics and officials, Burundian History. Travel to Burundi
		In linguistics, epenthesis generally breaks up a consonant cluster or vowel sequence that is not permitted by the phonotactics of a language.
		In French, the letter "t" is inserted in inverted interrogative phrases between a verb ending in a vowel and a pronoun beginning with a vowel, such as in "y a-t-il" (meaning "is there...?").
		One epenthetic vowel is the preceding vowel, found in the illative case ending -(h)*n, e.g.
	www.burundiiworld.com /wiki-Epenthesis (861 words)

	Schwa - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed.
		Sometimes the term "schwa" is used for any epenthetic vowel; however, different languages use different epenthetic vowels.
		Schwa is a very short neutral vowel sound, and like all vowels, its precise quality varies depending on the adjacent consonants.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Schwa (687 words)

	Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas
		Naturally, “foreign” vowels, non-existent in the Hungarian vowel paradigm, are substituted with such, present in the language.
		Therefore, an epenthetic vowel is inserted, to break up the accumulation of two, three (and even four!) consonants.
		By examining the nature of the chosen epenthetic vowel and giving the rules governing the choice we attempt to show the degree of vowel harmony involvement in the overall shaping of the loanwords in Hungarian.
	www.unirioja.es /cu/orobres/abstracts/ina_vishogradska.shtml (249 words)

	SILEWP 1996-003
		It is unusual in that the conditions governing the insertion of epenthetic material are both syntactic and phonological, and both precede and follow the point of insertion.
		It is puzzling in that, although the languages involved are creole languages for which the historical sources of many of their features are clear, there is no clear source for this insertion--either of the form of what is inserted or of the conditions governing the insertion.
		Underlying nasalized vowels in both languages are alternately realized as phonetic nasalized vowel, nasalized vowel plus nasal consonant, or oral vowel plus nasal consonant (for Ndyuka, see Huttar and Huttar 1994:548).
	www.sil.org /silewp/1996/003/silewp1996-003.html (4090 words)

	VIEW ROA 578
		Universally ranked constraints yield the result that front vowels are more marked than back and that round vowels are marked; languages may vary in how they rank the markedness of low and nonlow vowels.
		If nonlow vowels are unmarked, the epenthetic vowel is the least marked possible given the vowel system of the language.
		If neither ‘central' vowel is part of the system, the epenthetic vowel will generally be [i]: constraint conflict forces the choice of a more marked front vowel in order to avoid violations of markedness on the mid and round dimensions.
	roa.rutgers.edu /view.php3?roa=578 (160 words)

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		The fact that /e/ emerges as the epenthetic vowel, as well as the fact that epenthesis applies so as not to break up sC- clusters, is the result of a phonotactic schema that has its origins in a historical epenthesis process that is synchronically defunct.
		Vowel faithfulness suggests that only vowels that exist in the underlying representation may appear in the surface structure, which means that epenthesis is prohibited.
		The reasons why /e/ appeared as the epenthetic vowel when epenthesis was a productive process are obviously different from those I suggest for synchronic epenthesis.
	linguistics.byu.edu /faculty/eddingtond/epenthesis.html (6260 words)

	Mongolian Information Center - mongolian spots
		An epenthetic vowel is allophonically mongolian grill inserted, and the form of the epenthetic vowel is predictable from the preceding vowel: the epenthetic vowel is just a centralized version of the vowel in the preceding syllable.
		However, in the epenthetic vowel in a syllable after /u/ is a centralized /e/, and if there is an /i/ in the preceding syllable, then an epenthetic vowel's phonetic form is determined by the vowel in the syllable preceding the /i/, that is, two syllables before the epenthetic vowel.
		Another factor affecting the form of the epenthetic vowel is the preceding consonant: if it is postalveolar or palatalized, then the epenthetic vowel is a centralized /i/, as in [aʧĭɮ].
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Mongolian.html (984 words)

	schwa Information Center - teaching the schwa sound
		Such vowels are often transcribed with the symbol ə (turned e), regardless the schwa windows access code alt of their actual phonetic value.
		The mid-central unrounded vowel sound in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed.
		In this case the term mid-central vowel may be used schwa symbol instead of schwa to avoid ambiguity.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/schwa.html (772 words)

	[b-hebrew] Hebrew grammar, (was Zech 6:8)
		Since shewa is sort of a half-way vowel between the two (and whatever other /a/ varients their may have been) it probably was spoken similarly to pathah.
		This difference was probably, if shewa and /a/ were pronounced similarly, one of length, the length with ga'ya still differing from a full vowel (this differs from a hatep vowel on a non-guttural consonant, which when lengthened by ga'ya did receive a full vowel).
		The more abstract phonological syllable (which Khan strongly argues is the determinant of vowel quantity) could thus be represented as /way-yiq-tol/ and /wyiq-tol/, which when realised in speech requires the epenthetic vowel.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2005-November/027306.html (1658 words)

	Epenthetic vowels in Tashlhiyt Berber
		Although the existence of variation can be demonstrated, it is not the case that epenthetic vowels are always of a particular category for a given word.
		Therefore, though the occurrence of epenthetic vowels is best explained by the presence of a phonologically empty nuclei in the syllabification of a word, their qualities are not given in the lexicon, contrary to my proposal in Coleman (1996, 1999).
		In (30) a Tashlhiyt lexical vowel corresponds to a Tamazight lexical schwa; and in (31), a syllabic consonant (optionally preceded by an epenthetic vowel) in Tashlhiyt corresponds to a lexical schwa or another lexical vowel in Tamazight.
	www.phon.ox.ac.uk /~jcoleman/TPS.html (856 words)

	The epenthetic vowel Ë u (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Phonetically, this vowel is usually an unrounded high back lax vowel [ '065 ], [ '124 ] or [ '047 ].
		all the vowels after the first syllable are identical, or in some cases have been deleted.
		This vowel has been unrounded for so long that most speakers of Tamil pronounce it this way in LT as well as in ST, i.e.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/tamilweb/book/chapter1/node10.html (246 words)

	The Daltaí Boards: Tarbh, marbh
		/, where the unit in square brackets is conceptually a single syllable with equal stress on both vowels, at least for poetic purposes.
		"Epenthetic vowels occurred at the intermediate stage of the development of tarbh and such words — e.g.
		So too an epenthetic vowel developed between r and gh at an intermediate stage of the evolution of dorgha, thus dorgha → doragha → *dorú → drú."
	www.daltai.com /discus/messages/13510/14349.html?1129427643 (344 words)

	Mongolian Branch of the Altaic Language Family
		There are two kinds of vowels -- front vowels, which are produced at the front of the mouth, e.g., /i/, /e/, and back vowels, produced at the back of the mouth, e.g., /a/, /u/, /o/.
		Mongolian words can contain only all front or all back vowels, and all suffixes and affixes must conform to the vowel of the syllable preceding them in the word.
		In such cases, an epenthetic vowel is inserted between the consonants.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/MongolBranch.html (928 words)

	Lombardi -- abstract
		Vowel epenthesis is another situation where languages differ in what segments are chosen, but the variation and thus the challenge is greater.
		Many claims have been made in the past about the relative commonness of various epenthetic vowels, but they have been based on extremely limited data.
		These are marked vowels - mid and round - under any analysis, so the point to explain here seems to be how it can be that some languages choose marked vowels for epenthesis when the vast majority choose unmarked ones.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /ulcl/faculty/vdweijer/complexity/lombardi.html (547 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For example, the name Duane is commonly pronounced with an epenthetic schwa between the and the, and many speakers insert schwa between the /l/ and /t/ of realtor.
		For example, the cartoon character Yogi Bear says "pic-a-nic basket" for "picnic basket." Another example is to be found in the chants of England football fans in which England is usually rendered as.
		(There is no schwa in Finnish; the term "schwa" is often confused with the epenthetic vowel.) The second one is, connecting stems that have historically been consonant stems to their case endings, e.g.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=epenthesis (799 words)

	Epenthetic vowels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These clusters are often simplified with an epenthetic vowel.
		For example, the sentence ``candy faqr dam gAmid'' is pronounced /c a n d i f a q r d a m i g A m i d/ by all three of our speakers.
		The insertions are not required, and it was our observation that the residual effect of the epenthesis was often enough to give the illusion of simplification in the synthesized utterance.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~awb/papers/eurospeech2003/arabic/node18.html (110 words)

	Rodrik Wade, MA Thesis, Ch 4: Structural characteristics of Zulu English
		While vowel length is seldom the sole distinguishing feature between two WSAE phonemes, it plays a part in distinguishing the tense (long) and lax (short) vowels.
		Mother-tongue speakers produce the vowel in a word such as 'bat' considerably shorter than in a word such as 'bad' and they very often rely on vowel length as much as voicing of the final consonant to distinguish such pairs.
		Vowel and consonant epenthesis is not typical of acrolectal speakers.
	www.und.ac.za /und/ling/archive/wade_ch4.html (9613 words)

	Appendix E. Results of Linguistic Research
		The answer is that the second vowel forms the nucleus of a new syllable, and the /r/ syllabifies with this instead of with the first vowel, so it's no longer in a sonority relationship with the /d/, hence there's no longer any problem.
		It's possible that I got the impression that there is a vowel copying rule by comparing "aml" as pronounced in an "a"-inserting dialect with "llyfr" as pronounced in a "y"-inserting dialect.
		The copied vowel then makes the word behave just like a historical two-syllable word; hence the first syllable of llyfyr has schwa and the second the clear-y sound, as though the word had been disyllabic llyfyr in the first place.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /fun/welsh/AppendixE.html (1091 words)

	Taruven - sandhi
		To prevent muddling, one may split the combo by inserting an epenthetic vowel, the shape of this vowel depends on the shape of the next vowel.
		To prevent devoicing of voiced stops in final position, an epenthetic -e is appended or the final is aspirated.
		This is always reflected in the orthography, and the dictionary-forms are the strengthened forms: uísge has the underlying form uísg, dub' the underlying form dub.
	home.nvg.org /~taliesin/taruven/sketches/sandhi.html (224 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.3574: Neutral Vowels Across Langs
		One, that the default vowel is unrounded mid central.
		The same is true of the vowels in the positive 'uh-huh' and the negative 'uh-uh'.
		Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro: the neutral vowel of KarajÃ¡ occurs in unstressed syllables and is the epenthetic vowel breaking up consonant clusters in loanwords, for example.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/14/14-3574.html (378 words)

	CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS
		If it attaches to a base ending in a vowel, an epenthetic r is inserted.
		In (7b), the epenthetic r is inserted between the determiner a that is attached to the Noun txakur 'dog' and the dative morpheme i, resulting in txakurr+a+r+ i.
		Comitative ekin 'with': When added to a word ending in a vowel, the epenthetic consonant r must be inserted (23a, b).
	www.ehu.es /grammar/gram3.htm (3626 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, AL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		An epenthetic vowel is allophonically inserted, and the form of the epenthetic vowel is predictable from the preceding vowel: the epenthetic vowel is just a centralized version of the vowel in the preceding syllable.
		Another factor affecting the form of the epenthetic vowel is the preceding consonant: if it is postalveolar or palatalized, then the epenthetic vowel is a centralized /i/, as in.
		Similarly, if the first vowel is a non-pharyngeal vowel, then all the vowels of the word must be either /i/ or a non-pharyngeal vowel.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mongolian_language (1973 words)

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		Rabe' # where O represents the elided final vowel a of the final syllable ka; in the actual spelling # of the sequence, this O is replaced by an apostrophe; fantatr'Ingahy Rabe # fantatr+O Ingahy Rabe # be-known-to D.sg Rabe # 'be known to Mr.
		Rabe' # where O represents the elided final vowel a of the final syllable tra; in the actual spelling # of the sequence, this O is replaced by an apostrophe; # where the apostrophe introduces an AGENT in the genitive case.
		In this connection, note that epenthetic 'na' --unlike suffix '(i)na' or # '(a)na'-- does not trigger stress shift so that stress falls on 'le' in 'nalefa', and NOT # of 'fa' as would be the case if this was a case of suffixation.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~cpgl0015/pargram/data/ktrna.txt (2009 words)

	Metathesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After close examination and consultation with an Arabic linguist, we have concluded that these events are not metathesis but rather a combination of epenthesis and reduction or elision.
		]/, it sounds as if the vowel and its preceding consonant are simply reversed, but when the same phenomenon is examined in other dialects the simplifying vowel varies in realization, indicating that it is not a post-cluster /i/ that is pulled back, but rather an inserted simplifying vowel and an elided /i/.
		We have labeled the preceding vowel as an epenthetic vowel, excluding it from the unit database as described above.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~awb/papers/eurospeech2003/arabic/node19.html (206 words)

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		The only solution to resolve this issue is to insert the neutral vowel u to break the syllable clusters.
		Thus the syllable sequence of s + vowel initial particle will be of help to find English words in a Korean text out of the blue.
		However, as mentioned before, some English words are represented with a vowel-doubling to show the length of a vowel especially when followed by the r sound.
	compling.ai.uiuc.edu /doi/SiteVisit/korean.ppt (489 words)

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