Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation

It is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their occurrence. This paper aims at providing an optimal...

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Main Author: Cristina Bălan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2015-05-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_1_BALAN.pdf