epenthesis
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In phonology, epenthesis (; Greek ) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the first syllable (prothesis), the last syllable (paragoge), or between two syllabic sounds in a word. The opposite process in which one or more sounds are removed is referred to as syncope or elision.
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- Etymology
- Uses
- Separating vowels
- Bridging consonant clusters
- Breaking consonant clusters
- Other contexts
- Excrescence
- Historical sound change
- Synchronic rule
- Variable rule
- Poetic device
- In Japanese
- Anaptyxis
- Historical sound change
- End of word
- Middle of word
- Beginning of word
- Grammatical rule
- Borrowed words
- Informal speech
- In Finnish
- In constructed languages
- In sign language
- Related phenomena
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited sources
- External links
In phonology, epenthesis (; Greek ) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the first syllable (prothesis), the last syllable (paragoge), or between two syllabic sounds in a word. The opposite process in which one or more sounds are removed is referred to as syncope or elision.
==Etymology== The word epenthesis comes from and en- and thesis . Epenthesis may be divided into two types: excrescence for the addition of a consonant, and for the addition of a vowel, svarabhakti (in Sanskrit) or alternatively anaptyxis ().