Epenthesis Puns

I have a student who I see for language who recently started adding the /t/ sound to the ends of words that end in a nasal (so like, for the word "running" they might say "runningt," or for "fun" they might say "funt"). They haven't done this before, but it is becoming a more frequent, noticeable pattern. Has anyone ever seen this before? Is it something I should address?

Edit: I found something about this! https://pammarshalla.com/adding-unnecessary-final-consonants/

Hi everyone

So I work in the schools and have a rather interesting student on my caseload. She is a third grader and has been in speech since she was little. From what I understand she’s always been severe. The only errors she has left are /r/ (at conversation level) and some severe epenthesis.

I am fairly new the field but have never worked with a student with this condition before. Her speech sounds something like this “ I-uh am-uh going to-uh the-uh store where I place-ded the cake”. Sorry. It’s hard to describe- but just trust me when I say it makes her very hard to be understood to unfamiliar listeners.

I have found that when she slows down her speech when being mindful of /r/ errors, the epenthesis also goes away. So basically when she speaks a little slowly and is mindful. We’ve also played some awareness games this year like you would with a stuttering student to help them be aware of their stutter.

Anyone ever dealt with something this this before? What the heck did you do?

Epenthesis is the insertion of sounds into a word to make its pronunciation easier (or technically, to "repair" a sequence prohibited by a language or speaker's phonotactics). Typically, a vowel is inserted into consonant clusters or a consonant is inserted into vowel clusters. The details vary quite a bit by language.

Epenthesis should be an acceptable "dialectal" feature of pronunciation: even as a native speaker of English, I find it necessary in some Globasa words like atexgi. I propose that a standard be established. Most learners won't need to know the standard, but it's worth recording: this will be useful to voice performers for whom careful speech is important, interested linguists, and others.

Vowel epenthesis

Globasa has consonant clusters in onsets and across syllables. Native morpheme-internal clusters are listed on the Spelling and Pronunciation page. However, Globasa uses agglutination, producing more marked clusters, as well as doubled consonants. Many languages have CV or (C)V syllable structure, and speakers will find such clusters challenging and will naturally insert vowels. Some speakers may also insert vowels after word-final consonants.

There are three good ways to implement vowel epenthesis:

a. Copy the preceding or following nucleic vowel, depending on position;

b. Use a native phonemic vowel such as /e/;

c. Use a non-phonemic vowel such as [ə].

It may not be necessary to choose one of the three. The grammar can simply say vowel epenthesis is allowed, so long as homophones are not thereby created.

However, I would recommend making a single decision; although it is also logical to pick both A or B and C. Options A and B are similar, and one may be found to work better than the other. Option A is the least obtrusive in my estimation. It would not be difficult to run a program to check its cost in homophones generated. Option C is best for unambiguity, since it never creates homophones; it might be preferred but not mandated, since many languages have only Globasa's five vowels.

It is simple to stipulate,

> Between any two consonants in a word [or phrase], a short, central vowel sound, such as [ə], may be inserted at the speaker's discretion.

Consonant epenthesis

This is already discussed some, without using the name, on the pronunciation page. Double vowels and consonants may be pronounced, optionally, "with a glottal stop or pause in between."

This sentence appears to refer mostly to double vowels, sin

I've noticed that I often hear /bəʊθ/ realised as /bəʊlθ/ in American English, and I wondered if this is an isolated occurrence or an example of a feature.

Edit: To clarify I'm British, I've just followed the standard notation we have here as I'm not familiar enough with American English to do otherwise.

Was explaining to an undergrad student taking Phonology why (at least Mexican) Spanish speakers add an 'e' to the beginning of words with complex onsets, and was so amused by my joke that I was almost crying. They didn't get it, which made it even funnier to me.

Hi y'all,

I've been thinking about epenthesis lately and how it can influence a language's phonetic character. In Ándwa, as perhaps can be deduced from its name, vowel hiatus is routinely busted between /u/ and other vowels by labializing the preceding consonant, but I am also quite fond of using glottal stops as epenthic consonants between unlike oral vowels and [ɦ] between oral and nasal vowels (this distinction between oral and nasal vowels is grammatically important, but outside of pronouns which are imbued with nasality, only one nasal vowel usually occurs in a root or an affix).

Additionally, pretty much all consonants can be labialized (b^(w) and g^(w) deriving from bilabial trills and uvular trills, respectfully) or palatalized, but I don't know if I want to use glide insertion between [i] and other vowels, at least not orthographically, opting to use a glottal stop instead, as "-ya" is a common affix. So, a word like "i'acye," which means "to scare," literally, "to make rigid," would be spelled with an apostrophe, but "iyala," meaning "a vast thing" is spelled and pronounced with a "y," as it is a plain root word containing a phonemic glide [j].

My last dilemma is what to do between two of the same oral vowel, say "a" and "a." Vowel length is already linked with nasality (nasal vowels contrast with oral vowels in quality and in length), so I'd like to just elide one of them (I have forgotten what this process is called), so "naya-" + "adre" = "nayadre," with no apostrophe.

Is this internally consistent, aesthetically? Basically, vowel hiatus is resolved through epenthic glottal stops between oral vowels, [ɦ] between oral and nasal vowels, and by glide insertion with [u]?

Hey everyone. I had a quick question about vowel epenthesis. Namely, how many kinds are there? I know that there are languages that have a 'go-to' vowel for epenthesis like schwa in English, and that some languages utilize echo vowels per Dorsey's Law like Hoocak. Are there any other ways languages use vowel epenthesis?

Excrescence = the addition of a consonant. Anaptyxis (also svarabhakti) = the addition of a vowel.

e.g., message -> messenger

Can anyone direct me to resources on epenthesis in the Goidelic languages? I do speak some (very northern) Ulster Irish myself and insertion of (unwritten) vowels is standardised in both Irish and Gàidhlig (and I believe also in Manx) and since I study linguistics I'd love to read an actual paper (or book chapter) on the subject.

I do have Ball & Fife's book The Celtic Languages but I'm really hoping someone has a paper just talking about this specific topic as they only touch on it in individual sections unless I've missed something and don't really discuss its presence in Middle Irish.

Thank you so much! Go raibh míle math 'gaibh!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Mathematical puns makes me number

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

Put it on my bill

Calcium, nickel, neon

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!