Forthcoming: Epenthesis and beyond

Ji Yea Kim (ed), Veronica Miatto (ed), Andrija Petrović (ed), Lori Repetti (ed)

Synopsis

The study of epenthesis, or the insertion of a non-etymological segment, has been at the core of phonological theory from the start, and recent approaches extend beyond phonology to include phonetic considerations, as well as morphological, morphosyntactic, and lexical interactions. This volume includes 12 of the many papers presented at the workshop “Epenthesis and Beyond” held at Stony Brook University in 2021, whose goal was to provide a forum for scholars who approach epenthesis and other types of insertion from new perspectives. The articles selected for this volume represent the exciting new approaches to epenthesis that linguists are engaged in. They cover a wide range of research questions, including how different types of insertion within the same language can use different epenthetic segments, and how across languages the same phonetic material can have different  phonological interpretations. Topics like feature epenthesis, insertion vs. deletion, vowel predictability, nucleus-less syllables, and epenthetic segment quality, are also explored. Some of the new tools employed by the authors include ultrasound, Information Theory, and textsetting (the study of the way poets map their text onto a metrical grid). The breadth of languages investigated is noteworthy as well: Kru languages (spoken in Western Africa), Anindilyakwa (spoken in Australia), Yuman languages (spoken in the border area between Mexico, California, Arizona), Motu (Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea), Kaqchikel (Mayan  language spoken in Guatemala), Arabic, Turkish, Korean, and many others.

Chapters

  • Epenthesis and Beyond
    An Overview
    Ji Yea Kim , Veronica Miatto, Andrija Petrović, Lori Repetti
  • Insertion or deletion?
    CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages
    Hannah Sande
  • Vowel predictability and omission in Anindilyakwa
    John Mansfield, Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes
  • The patterning of epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic
    Hassan Bokhari
  • Segmental and prosodic influences on Bolognese epenthesis
    Edward J. Rubin, Aaron Kaplan
  • Epenthesis as a matter of FAITH
    Christian Uffmann
  • Gestural characteristics of vowel intrusion in Turkish onset cluster
    An ultrasound study
    Jennifer Bellik
  • Intrusive and epenthetic vowels revisited
    Nancy Hall
  • Three language-specific phonological interpretations of release bursts and short vowel-like formants
    Silke Hamann, Veronica Miatto
  • Prokaryotic syllables and excrescent vowels in two Yuman languages
    Martin Krämer
  • On the diachrony of lateral epenthesis
    Michael Ramsammy
  • Textsetting the case for epenthesis in Armenian
    Luc Baronian, Nicolas Royer-Artuso
  • Insertion of [spread glottis] at the right edge of words in Kaqchikel
    Brett C. Nelson
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Published

September 16, 2024
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Series

Topics in Phonological Diversity

Online ISSN

2943-6540

Print ISSN

2943-6559
Cite as
Kim , Ji Yea , Miatto, Veronica, Petrović, Andrija & Repetti, Lori (eds.). Forthcoming. Epenthesis and beyond. (Topics in Phonological Diversity). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ji Yea Kim , Veronica Miatto, Andrija Petrović; Hannah Sande; Lori Repetti; John Mansfield, Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Hassan Bokhari, Edward J. Rubin, Aaron Kaplan, Christian Uffmann, Jennifer Bellik, Nancy Hall, Silke Hamann, Martin Krämer, Michael Ramsammy, Luc Baronian, Nicolas Royer-Artuso, Brett C. Nelson

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