From: | Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> |
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Date: | Thursday, January 15, 2004, 8:55 |
There is a fairly strong tendency for languages to prefer syllables with initial consonants over syllables with no initial consonants. So, languages will epenthesize V-initial syllables with a consonant, commonly [?], if some other tendency (like a simple nonpreference for epenthesis) doesn't prevent it.