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.

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[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".)