Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces

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
    Chapter 1
  • Insertion or deletion?
    CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages
    Hannah Sande
    Chapter 2
  • Vowel predictability and omission in Anindilyakwa
    John Mansfield, Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes
    Chapter 3
  • The patterning of epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic
    Hassan Bokhari
    Chapter 4
  • Segmental and prosodic influences on Bolognese epenthesis
    Edward J. Rubin, Aaron Kaplan
    Chapter 5
  • Epenthesis as a matter of FAITH
    Christian Uffmann
    Chapter 6
  • Gestural characteristics of vowel intrusion in Turkish onset cluster
    An ultrasound study
    Jennifer Bellik
    Chapter 7
  • Intrusive and epenthetic vowels revisited
    Nancy Hall
    Chapter 8
  • Three language-specific phonological interpretations of release bursts and short vowel-like formants
    Silke Hamann, Veronica Miatto
    Chapter 9
  • Prokaryotic syllables and excrescent vowels in two Yuman languages
    Martin Krämer
    Chapter 10
  • On the diachrony of lateral epenthesis
    Michael Ramsammy
    Chapter 11
  • Textsetting the case for epenthesis in Armenian
    Luc Baronian, Nicolas Royer-Artuso
    Chapter 12
  • Insertion of [spread glottis] at the right edge of words in Kaqchikel
    Brett C. Nelson
    Chapter 13

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Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces

Biographies

Ji Yea Kim , Gyeongsang National University

Ji Yea Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Gyeongsang National University in Korea, holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Topics of her research range from speech production and perception to loanword phonology, variation, suffixation, and typology from both theoretical and experimental perspectives

Veronica Miatto, Stony Brook University

Veronica Miatto has obtained her PhD in Linguistics at Stony Brook University. Her research involves using experimental methods to make cognitive and sociolinguistics assumptions at the interface of Phonology and Phonetics. More specifically, she has recently worked on the phonological status of word-finally inserted schwas in various Italian dialects, on phonologically distinctive places of articulation on the face in ASL, and on stop voicing both in Italian and Lio (Austronesian).

Andrija Petrović, Stony Brook University

Andrija Petrović holds a PhD in Linguistics from Stony Brook University; his research brings together theoretical, empirical, and computational approaches to phonology and morphology. He has most recently been working on a characterization of morphological processes as logical string transductions, with a special focus on the interfaces with phonology and syntax.

Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University

Lori Repetti (PhD, UCLA, 1989) is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, specializing in Italian and Romance phonology, dialectology, and language change. Her current research explores the interaction between phonology and other areas of grammar, microvariation, and the teaching of Linguistics.

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December 16, 2024
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Topics in Phonological Diversity

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2943-6540

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2943-6559
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Kim , Ji Yea , Miatto, Veronica, Petrović, Andrija & Repetti, Lori (eds.). 2024. Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces. (Topics in Phonological Diversity 4). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14193821
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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