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Title: | Correspondence and Epenthetic Quality |
Authors: | Catherine Kitto, Paul de Lacy |
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Abstract: | Correspondence and Epenthetic Quality Catherine Kitto (University of Toronto) and Paul de Lacy (University of Massachusetts) In some languages epenthetic segments are realized with unmarked features while in others they are copies of nearby segments. To account for this variation, we propose that epenthetic elements can be in a relation of Correspondence with other output segments, analogous to reduplication. This approach is shown to account for both cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in epenthetic featural quality. We examine a variety of cases of epenthesis, focussing on cases of copy epenthesis and on languages where epenthetic quality varies in different contexts. Keywords: epenthesis, correspondence, Base |
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Article: | Version 1 |