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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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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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diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite,
whereby sounds are added, is
epenthesis.
Synchronic analysis studies linguistic phenomena at one
moment of a language's...
- ****ics, suffixes, root inflection,
ending morphology, elision, sandhi,
epenthesis, and ****imilation; the beginning, core, and end of
words can each change...
- uyyāna
Nasals sometimes ****imilate to a
preceding stop (in
other cases epenthesis occurs) Examples: agni (fire) → aggi, ātman (self) → atta, prāpnoti →...
- when
compared with
Standard Bengali.
Eastern Bengali notably preserves epenthesis (Bengali: অপিনিহিতি, romanized: ôpinihiti) from an
earlier stage of Bengali...
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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...
- Slim is
pronounced /esˈlim/).
While Spanish words undergo word-initial
epenthesis,
cognates in
Latin and
Italian do not: Lat.
status /ˈsta.tus/ ('state')...
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Pijin (Solomon
Islands Pidgin) is a
language spoken in
Solomon Islands. It is
closely related to Tok
Pisin of
Papua New
Guinea and
Bislama of Vanuatu;...
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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...
