[General] antonym for elide

[rodster]

I seek the term that is the antonym for elide or elision.

There is plenty on the net about the handiness of these abbreviation processes but nothing that I can find to label a 'stretching' of words due to poor speech (especially in Australia).

For example, "tour" is said as "two-er", "Year" as "ye-ar" and so on.

Tour and year are spoken with the lips open while the others require the lips to close.

Is there a formal or even a colloquial term for adding a syllable to such words, please?


Thanks,

RF

[Soup]

Originally Posted by rodster

I seek the term that is the antonym for elide or elision.

Epenthesis and anaptyxis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis

rodster]For example, "tour" is said as "two-er", "Year" as "ye-ar" and so on.

If [r] is syllabic, then these aren't examples of epenthesis or anaptyxis:

[tu:r] > [tu'r] where [r] is syllabic
[yi:r] > [yi'r] where [r] is syllabic

The apparent rules:

[1] a long vowel becomes a short vowel before syllabic consonants (R, and possibly L, M, and N). The reason, syllable weight redistribution: semi-vowels are vocalic as are vowels. They are too similar so the speaker separates the two by redefining the syllable boundary.

[2] insert a reduced vowel instead of changing the syllable boundary (epenthesis, anaptyxis)

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