Epenthesis - Revision history

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 ==External Links==
 *http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Helping_vowel
 *http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Intrusive_T_or_Why_we%27re_writing_sròn_not_*stròn
 The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

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 ==External Links==
 *http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Helping_vowel
 The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
 *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis

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	==External Links==		==External Links==
		+	*http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Helping_vowel
		+	The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
	*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis		*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis

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 *Ní Chiosáin, M. (1994). Barra Gaelic Vowel Copy and (Non)-Constituent Spreading, ''Proceedings of WCCFL XIII'', 3-13.
-[Category:Phonology]]
+[[Category:Phonology]]
 [[Category:Phonetics]]

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 *[[Theoretical Treatments of Epenthesis]]
 *[[Hiatus]]
-*[[Epenthesis (definition)
+*[[Epenthesis (definition)]]
 *[[Syllabification]]
 ==External Links==

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 Some examples are provided below (all taken from Bosch 1997); the epenthetic vowels are underlined:
-* ''arm'' [ar<u>a</u>m] ''army''
+* ''arm'', [ar<u>a</u>m], "army"
-* [ʃaɫ<u>a</u>v] ''prosperity''
+* ''sealbh'', [ʃaɫ<u>a</u>v], "property"
-* [skar<u>a</u>v] ''cormorant''
+* ''sgarbh'', [skar<u>a</u>v], "cormorant"
-* ''Alba'', [aɫ<u>a</u>pə] ''Scotland''
+* ''Alba'', [aɫ<u>a</u>pə], "Scotland"
-* [ur<u>u</u>xirᴶ] ''a shot''
+* ''urchair'', [ur<u>u</u>xirᴶ], "a shot'"
-* ''dorcha'', [dɔr<u>ɔ</u>xɔ] ''dark''
+* ''dorcha'', [dɔr<u>ɔ</u>xɔ], "dark"
-* [merᴶ<u>e</u>kᴶ] ''rust''
+* [merᴶ<u>e</u>kᴶ] "rust"
 ==Vowel Harmony==

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 == Description of the phenomenon ==
-Epenthetic vowels generally occur "between non-homorganic [[Sonorant (definition)|sonorants]] and [[Obstruent (definition)|obstruents]], following a short, stressed vowel." (Bosch 1997: 1).
+Epenthetic vowels generally occur "between non-homorganic [[Sonorant (definition)|sonorants]] and [[Obstruent (definition)|obstruents]], following a short, stressed vowel." (Bosch 1997: 1). The obstruent cannot be a [[Voice (definition)|voiceless]] [[Aspiration (definition)|unaspirated]] stop
 Some examples are provided below (all taken from Bosch 1997); the epenthetic vowels are underlined:
-- [ar<u>a</u>m] ''army''
+* [ar<u>a</u>m] ''army''
-- [ʃaɫ<u>a</u>v] ''prosperity''
+==Vowel Harmony==
 == Orthography ==

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	== Description of the phenomenon ==		== Description of the phenomenon ==
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		+	Epenthetic vowels generally occur "between non-homorganic [[Sonorant (definition)\|sonorants]] and [[Obstruent (definition)\|obstruents]], following a short, stressed vowel." (Bosch 1997: 1).
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		+	Some examples are provided below (all taken from Bosch 1997); the epenthetic vowels are underlined:
		+
		+	- [ar<u>a</u>m] ''army''
		+
		+	- [ʃaɫ<u>a</u>v] ''prosperity''
		+
		+	- [skar<u>a</u>v] ''cormorant''
		+
		+	- [aɫ<u>a</u>pə] ''Scotland''
		+
		+	- [ur<u>u</u>xirᴶ] ''a shot''
		+
		+	- [dɔr<u>ɔ</u>xɔ] ''dark''
		+
		+	- [merᴶ<u>e</u>kᴶ] ''rust''

	== Orthography ==		== Orthography ==

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	+	*For a definition of Epenthesis (also known svarabhakti) see [[Epenthesis (definition)]]
	+	*For a discussion of the theoretical treatments of epenthesis in the linguistics literature see [[Theoretical Treatments of Epenthesis]]

	+	'''Epenthesis''' in Scottish Gaelic primarily refers to vocalic epenthesis (also known as Svarabhakti), which is generally understood as the insertion of a [[Vowel (definition)\|vowel]] within a [[Consonant (definition)\|consonantal]] sequence.
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	+	== Description of the phenomenon ==
	+
	+	== Orthography ==
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	+
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	+	==See Also==
	+	*[[Theoretical Treatments of Epenthesis]]
	+	*[[Hiatus]]
	+	*[[Epenthesis (definition)
	+	*[[Syllabification]]
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	+	==External Links==
	+	*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis
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	+	==References==
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	+	*Borgstrøm C, Hj. (1937). The Dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, ''Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap'' 7, 71-242.
	+	*Borgstrøm C, Hj. (1940). The Dialects of the Outer Hebrides, ''NTS suppl. bind 1'' Oslo: Aschehoug & Co.
	+	*Bosch, Anna (1995). ''A gestural analysis of epenthesis in Scottish Gaelic''. Ms., University of Kentucky.
	+	*Bosch, Anna (2003). Borgstrøm's Dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides: The Uses and Misuses of Description in Theory, ''Scottish Gaelic Studies'' 21, 221-239.
	+	*Bosch, Anna & De Jong, Kenneth (1997). The Prosody of Barra Gaelic Epenthetic Vowels, ''Studies in the Linguistic Sciences'' 27, 1-16.
	+	*Clements, G.N. (1986). Syllabification and epenthesis in the Barra dialect of Gaelic. In K. Bogers, H. van der Hulst & M. Mous (eds.), ''The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals: Studies on African Languages Offered to John M. Steward on His 60th Birthday'', 317-336. Dordrecht: Foris.
	+	*Halle, Morris (1995). Feature Geometry and Feature Spreading, ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 26, 1-46.
	+	*Ní Chiosáin, M. (1994). Barra Gaelic Vowel Copy and (Non)-Constituent Spreading, ''Proceedings of WCCFL XIII'', 3-13.
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	+	[Category:Phonology]]
	+	[[Category:Phonetics]]