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Peer reviewedAuger, Julie – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Discusses a corpus-based study that focuses on word epenthesis.Provides quantitative evidence that vowel epenthesis applies categorically in some environments and variably in others. Probabilistic analysis demonstrates that the variable pattern is constrained by a complex interplay of linguistic factors. Interprets such grammatical conditioning as…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
