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This paper has benefited greatly from discussions with the following people: Morris Halle, Alan Prince, Jay Keyser, Donca Steriade, Doug Pulleyblank, John McCarthy, Armin Mester and Junko Ito, and all participants in the Brandeis University pro-seminars (and the MIT Phonology seminars). I am also grateful for the comments of several anonymous reviewers. All errors are, of course, my own.

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Yip, M. English vowel epenthesis. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 5, 463–484 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138986

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