Epenthesis

A epenthesis (Greek επένθεσις epenthesis, inserting ', including: according slide, sound activation ) is the complement of a word to a phoneme to facilitate the discussion (without etymological motivation). Epenthesen found only in morphologically complex expressions. In some cases, they also serve to avoid hiatuses.

Examples

• T- hopefully in
• -s- in newsboy ( the inserted s, since it is inserted between the two parts of a compound word, at the same time, the linking element )
• -n in african serves the Hiatvermeidung
• -t in Tokyo is also used to Hiatvermeidung

Epenthesen need not necessarily be reflected in the orthography itself. Even with unchanged orthography can take place in the spoken language, such a sound, insert:

• -t in the way. The expected according to the written form pronunciation [y ː brigəns ] is often realized as [y ː brigənts ]. However, this can often be reversed leading to a common misspelling by übrigends written according to the phonetic realization instead of the way.

Even in young children can be observed in the course of first language acquisition ausspracheerleichternden the use of Epenthesen:

• Sandara for ' Sandra '
• Lulise for ' Louise '