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

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

Epenthetic seems to make the most sense here: their example seems to be talking about the epenthetic [p] in warm[p]th. And neither I nor the OED has ever heard of epithentic before. But it doesn't seem to be a mere typo, because STP's abbreviation for it is _epi rathern than, say, _epe. Strange.