(Hall, 2013 Ohala & Ohala,ġ991 Golston & Wiese, 1996 Clements, 2016) Moreover, many other types of research in different languages In dialects of other languages like Arabic, Nepalese, German, Gaelic etc. Rarely been discovered or researched in the Bengali Language although there exist similar research on epenthesis The current paper tries to focus on the aspects of the epenthesis that take place on the dialect level lexicon of theīengali language, especially those that are native Bangla words, to be exact the dialect words. The data from Bangla like /iskul/ which comes from the word /skul/ for the English word 'school'. However, Chung (2019) has focused on the consonant clusters adaptedįrom the English language (included many instances of epenthesis) to Bangla dialects, but didn’t focus on theĪspects of the native Bengali words (the focus being only on the loans from English). Language, like the study of Karim (2010). Many of the early research on Bangla epenthesis has focused on the English loan words of the Bengali The forms are thus accounted for by the morphological analysis in DM and following phonological changes on them, analyzed in OT. These are analyzed in Optimality Theory in the third part of the thesis, extending the analysis of the first part. Differences between the two Bangla cases show the existence of a number of phonologically motivated changes, some of which also relate to syllable structure (diphthongization, gemination). The analysis of Bangla in this second part compares a consonant-final stem with a vowel-final stem for all forms. The Bangla analysis is compared with a similar analysis of the much simpler case of English verbal inflectional morphology.

The inflectional categories that are covered by the analysis are ten categories of tense/mood (perfect, conditional etc), three levels of politeness (Formal, Polite and Intimate) in three persons. In the second part of the thesis, a morphological analysis in the Distributed Morphology framework (Halle and Marantz) is provided for standard verbal inflectional paradigms of Bangla. The analysis is presented in Optimality Theory (OT), following the stratification of the lexicon by Ito and Mester (in Japanese). A positional faithfulness analysis is presented for An agreement analysis of voicing at the word medial position is argued for. Special attention is paid to voicing and to aspiration. A range of other restrictions are discussed. Further, SB and NB do not allow complex codas, while these are found in OB. The NB stratum does not allow complex onsets while SB and OB allows complex onsets. It turns out that the clusters are best described with the help of a division of the Bangla lexicon into three strata: Sanskrit borrowings (SB), Native Bangla words (NB), and the other borrowings (OB). In the first part of this thesis, an extensive corpus study is used in order to determine the frequency of occurrences of different consonant clusters.

Bangla noti para