Epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit

Epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit

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This paper aims to offer an extra-phonological analysis for a purely phoneticphonological phenomenon: epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit.In this language, both epenthetic glides [j] and [w] may appear in specific contexts and are usually considered 2649-20 a hiatus-repairing strategy.We will discuss the different contexts where all types of glides appear and ah6789-001 focus on the glides that are not lexically motivated.More precisely, we will discuss the epenthetic glides that surface at the junction between a noun/verb and their clitics.We aim at explaining and formalizing the distribution of epenthetic glides, whose motivation goes beyond phonology.