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syncope or elision. The word
epenthesis comes from epi- 'in
addition to' and en- 'in' and
thesis 'putting'.
Epenthesis may be
divided into two types:...
- ****ics, suffixes, root inflection,
ending morphology, elision, sandhi,
epenthesis, and ****imilation; the beginning, core, and end of
words can each change...
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speech may
involve the
elision of the /d/ from /ndz/
rather than
epenthesis in /nz/.
Epenthesis of a stop
between a
nasal and a
fricative can also
occur in...
- uyyāna
Nasals sometimes ****imilate to a
preceding stop (in
other cases epenthesis occurs) Examples: agni (fire) → aggi, ātman (self) → atta, prāpnoti →...
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extra consonant sound. A
consonant sound may be
added between vowels (
epenthesis) to
prevent hiatus. That is most
often a
semivowel or a glottal, but all...
- north-western India, are the
tendency to
shorten long vowels, the
practice of
epenthesis, or the
modification of a
vowel by the one
which follows in the next syllable...
-
meanma /ˈmʲan̪ˠəmˠə/ ('mind'), ainmhí /ˈanʲəvʲiː/ ('animal').
There is no
epenthesis, however, if the
vowel preceding the
cluster is long or a diphthong: fáirbre...
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diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite,
whereby sounds are added, is
epenthesis.
Synchronic analysis studies linguistic phenomena at one
moment of a language's...
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Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡejz bɾaziˈlejɾu]) is the set of
varieties of
Portuguese language native to Brazil. It is...
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central vowels are
often inserted to
break up
consonant clusters (a form of
epenthesis).
Various Semitic, Cu****ic, Berber, and
Chadic languages,
including Arabic...
