Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian

The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within the word. This last factor has received little...

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Autor principal:	Lori Repetti
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2012
Materias:	epenthesis epenthetic vowel quality paragoge Italian Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0b746db066af4ed388bbaa992e49ebf32021-11-27T10:47:20ZConsonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian10.5565/rev/catjl.141695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/0b746db066af4ed388bbaa992e49ebf32012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/14https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within the word. This last factor has received little attention in the literature. I have identified a number of cases in Italian in which the quality of the inserted vowel is determined by its position within the word. Through an in-depth study of loan word integration we see that the choice of the inserted vowel is influenced not only by phonology, but by phonetics and morphology as well.Lori RepettiUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleepenthesisepenthetic vowel qualityparagogeItalianPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 11 (2012)
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description	The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within the word. This last factor has received little attention in the literature. I have identified a number of cases in Italian in which the quality of the inserted vowel is determined by its position within the word. Through an in-depth study of loan word integration we see that the choice of the inserted vowel is influenced not only by phonology, but by phonetics and morphology as well.
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title	Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian
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Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian

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