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Definition of anaptyxis in English: anaptyxisnounˌanəpˈtɪksɪsˌanapˈtiksis mass nounPhonetics The insertion of a vowel between two consonants to aid pronunciation, as in he went thataway. 〔语音〕加音 Example sentencesExamples - It is the unstressed environment that licenses anaptyxis, and so consistently closed, unstressed syllables are required.
- There is cross-linguistic evidence for associating anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries with the nature of the consonants involved in the process.
- This appendix provides evidence of the application of anaptyxis in Old English.
- Prothesis and anaptyxis are often called simply ‘vowel’ or ‘schwa epenthesis’.
- It seems more like anaptyxis to me, with maybe a compensatory syncope.
Derivativesadjective Phonetics Basque speakers shifting to Romance were confronted with lots of words beginning with [r], which they could not pronounce without an anaptyctic vowel. Example sentencesExamples - Stress might have served as an environment for the denasalization or fortification of ‘m’, as well as the strengthening of the anaptyctic vowel in the prefix.
- First, in the Eastern dialects, final consonant clusters did not contain a vowel, whereas in the Western dialects they had an anaptyctic vowel, e.g. (West / East) husun/husn ‘beauty’, fahid/fihd ‘thigh’, kalima/kilma ‘word’, ‘unuq / ‘unq ‘neck’.
- For formatives that are either verbs or nouns with a vocalic Affiliation / Extension prefix, the rules for consonantal prefixation are more constrained, as no forms using an anaptyctic vowel are permitted.
- There evidently has to be a related word with a syllabic consonant to trigger this so that e.g. duckling, madly, ugly, Wembley etc. are not usually affected but e.g. buckler, burglar, butler, inkling, spindly, stickler etc. may well soon be increasingly heard with an anaptyctic schwa by some GB speakers.
OriginLate 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek anaptuxis 'unfolding', from ana- 'back, again' + ptuxis 'folding'. Definition of anaptyxis in US English: anaptyxisnounˌanapˈtiksis Phonetics The insertion of a vowel between two consonants in pronunciation, as in filim for film. 〔语音〕加音 Example sentencesExamples - It seems more like anaptyxis to me, with maybe a compensatory syncope.
- It is the unstressed environment that licenses anaptyxis, and so consistently closed, unstressed syllables are required.
- This appendix provides evidence of the application of anaptyxis in Old English.
- Prothesis and anaptyxis are often called simply ‘vowel’ or ‘schwa epenthesis’.
- There is cross-linguistic evidence for associating anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries with the nature of the consonants involved in the process.
OriginLate 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek anaptuxis ‘unfolding’, from ana- ‘back, again’ + ptuxis ‘folding’. |