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(phonology, phonetics) Of or pertaining to epenthesis. quotations
“I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.”
2015 December 7, Julie Beck, “The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'”, in The Atlantic
(phonology, of a phoneme or syllable) Inserted into a word.