epithentic [sic]

[trochee]

in light of a recent post, I found the word epithentic in the Switchboard Transcription Project's documentation.

Google turns up nothing except the same page and another page that doesn't reassure me much because its title is "A SPE based destinctive feature composition" [sic].

Do y'all figure that "epenthetic" was what was intended? Google also suggested "epithetic" but "epithetic stop" doesn't make sense.

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

the process by which a new word is formed by inserting a sound into another word. "Thunder," an English word derived from the Old English word "thunor" by process of epenthesis.

Gosh. I have a conlang where this is a regular rule of derivation, but I didn't know it had a name.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

it happens a lot in English, too: "something" often gets an epenthetic /p/ between the syllables, for example. (Sometimes it's called "excrescent".)