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In:Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology
Edited by Bridget D. Samuels
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 241] 2017
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Chapter 4
Consonant epenthesis and markedness

 | Cambridge UniversityUniversity of Southern California
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Published online: 16 November 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.English r-epenthesis
  • 3.Deletion
  • 4.Markedness-based analyses
    • 4.1Glide formation
    • 4.2Contextual markedness
    • 4.3Markedness and defaults
    • 4.4Correlating insertion and deletion via the P-map
  • 5.Case study: rhotacism in English
  • 6.Conclusions
  • acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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