See Dissimilation, Epenthesis ( consonant clusters can be difficult to say ), and Reduplication all of which have elements relating to ease of articulation that can be used to construct tongue twisters.
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One of the characteristics of this dialect is that words are stretched out in pronunciation with the addition of an extra vowel sound either in the middle of the words or at the end epenthesis.
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Before the palatalisation " ?" and " ? " merged as and approximately in the same period epenthesis " u " is inserted into word-final and clusters.
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Likewise, the second " o " ( schwa sound ) in " Catholic " and " sophomore " are not elided as a form of epenthesis, even in careful or casual speech.
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However a synchronic analysis, in keeping with the perception of most native speakers, would ( equally correctly ) see it as epenthesis : " a " > " an ".
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For those who have trouble pronouncing certain consonant clusters, there is the option of adding vowels between them ( epenthesis ), as long as they differ sufficiently from the phonological vowels and are pronounced as short as possible.
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Vowels are subject to two rules : penultimate lengthening which means that external realisations may be long vowels while the underlying form is a short vowel and epenthesis which means the insertion of a vowel where the underlying form of the morpheme does not contain one.
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Finnish " otta-" ) . ( A complementary epenthesis of * w before initial " long " rounded vowels is accepted to not represent common inheritance, as it occurs also before long vowels resulting from the exclusively Samic development > .)
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*I have no knowledge of the Japanese, but if an / n / is missing after a final vowel, but shows up internally in a longer form, it is often not epenthesis, but retention of an original consonant that was lost word finally.
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Other relics of Khasa, again agreeing with north-western India, are the tendency to shorten long vowels, the practice of " epenthesis ", or the modification of a vowel by the one which follows in the next syllable, and the frequent occurrence of disaspiration.
