Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology

Vowel prothesis is a phonological process by which a vowel is inserted at the beginning of a word. Vowel prothesis before a rhotic is attested in a number of languages of the world and has been discussed by Hall (2011), where the instantiation of this phenomenon in the Walliser dialect of Swiss Germ...

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Main Author: David Bolter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-02-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1406