ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7 we will see that some of the segments which undergo syncope are in fact derived by an earlier process of epenthesis. Thus vowel/zero alternations in certain forms actually reflect both epenthesis and deletion. Within the CV analysis of syncope for which I will be arguing, there is another sense as well in which epenthesis is involved in syncope, since in this analysis the role of the stressable/unstressable distinction in syncope is derived from the interaction of segmental deletion processes with the rules of V-slot epenthesis which were formulated in Chapter 4. Nonetheless, it remains the case that five deletion rules are required to account for the alternations that we find in the environments in (1).
