Word-Medial Epenthesis in Spanish: A Lexical Phonological Approach

Authors

David Eddington, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

word-medial, Epenthesis in Spanish

Abstract

The fact that Spanish has a phonotactic constraint that disallows a word to begin with the cluster /sC/ was recognized by classical generative phonologists as a process that was predictable, and therefore should be derived by rule:

Original Publication Citation

1992. “Word-medial Epenthesis in Spanish: A Lexical Phonological Approach.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 11.14-28.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Eddington, David, "Word-Medial Epenthesis in Spanish: A Lexical Phonological Approach" (1992). Faculty Publications. 6944.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6944

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1992

Publisher

Linguistic Association of the Southwest

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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