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Epenthesis in Old French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Douglas C. Walker
Douglas C. Walker*
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University of Ottawa
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This paper is structured in the following way: first, certain alternations involving consonantal insertion will be examined in order to motivate a synchronic epenthesis rule for Old French (OF) phonology. After details of this rule and some of its relationships with other rules are fixed, an interesting set of historical changes involving restructuring, analogy, and rule ordering will be investigated in an effort to clarify several complicated interactions between phonological and morphological factors in the evolution of the OF verb system.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 23 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Fall 1978 , pp. 66 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1978

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