Complex onsets that begin with #sibilants differ from other complex onsets in their phonological properties, articulation, and acquisition. What makes them special?

#LabPhon #Farsi #L2Phonology #epenthesis #openaccess

doi.org/10.16995/lab...

gahwa = nothing
gahawa = guttural epenthesis
ghawa = guttural metathesis

I think as originally described it is almost always metathesis, not epenthesis. I am not even familiar with any varieties with regular "gahawa", from Iraq to Oman I only know about "ghawa".

Starting to think Levantine #Arabic من is just /mn/ (with regular vowel epenthesis where needed), which is cool and a bit disturbing

Improbable but fun old-school SPE-style Duke-of-York analysis:

‘meetings’
/mɪjtɪŋz/
↓
[mɪjtɪnz] (“g-dropping” and place-assimilation to /z/)
↓
[mɪjtn̩z] (schwi syncope)
↓
[mɪjʔn̩z] (regular t-debuccalization before syllabic n)
↓
[mɪjʔɪnz] (schwi epenthesis)

Epenthesis, adding extra sounds to #words , is a #PetPeeve for many #language speakers but it's just splitting hairs. Or, rather, splitting awkward sound clusters

#linguistics #phonetics #pronunciation

October 16: epenthesis! Including so many examples, and I can think of more still. #ayearofwords

Now I know that “hampster” is an example of what linguists call *epenthesis*, when a sound is inserted into a word. When you do it with consonants specifically it’s called *excrescence* (horrible name, I know).

Another example is pronouncing “something” as “sumpthing”.

Weil es im Deutschen keine üblichen Konsonantenfolgen am Wortanfang sind und die Aussprache daher schwerfällt? Heisst Epenthesis. Deswegen sagen Spanier España und estudiar, weil es die Konsonantenfolgen sp und st am Wortanfang nicht gibt

/tr/ is illicit in farsi and punjabi (hc law iranian/pakistani 😊) so a method of nativization would be epenthesis of /e/ or /æ/! also i like to say terāfalgar 😂 (other option is saying /chrāfalgar/ which is fun as well but less common)

gaelic gotta be one of the hardest languages to make sense of when trying to read it

the pronunciation is already bizarre if you're only used to modern languages that use latin script, but stuff like "ainmhidh" has two silent letters and an epenthesis on top of it

Thinking about epenthesis and Scots English

110: vowel epenthesis (“god-uh,” “stop-uh”)

For day one I have started this Namjin fic that’s 39k and I have already left a comment on ch. 1

archiveofourown.org/chapters/149...

“Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions: the case of Arabic epenthesis” by Abdullah Alfaifi (July ’25) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The phonological innovations are in fact thorough in comparison to some Scandinavian varieties. Even standard Swedish or Norwegian are more conservative on many accounts. Secondary diphthongisation, delabialisation & things (devoicing/epenthesis) happening to consonant clusters, for a starter.

“Tomtomming stop epenthesis in Santome” by Tjerk Hagemeijer (July ’25) edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/52180a...

“This paper discusses historical stop epenthesis in /sl/ sequences in Santome (Forro), a Portuguese-related creole language spoken on the island of São Tomé in West Africa.”