Epenthesis (definition)
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this term is used in phonetics and phonology when there an extra sound that has been inserted in a word. This happens a lot in historically and in connected speech.
for the article on epenthesis in Gaelic see Epenthesis
See Also
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/E/epenthesis.htm
References
- Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
