The clustering of consonants at either or both edges of a syllable, which renders it complex (CCVC or CVCC), is disfavored, if not categorically banned, in many languages. Epenthesis (also called anaptyxis) is one of the repair mechanisms a language may employ to rectify syllabification violations ensuing from undesirable clusters. The surface effect of epenthesis is insertion of a ‘helping’ vowel, to facilitate proper syllabification of all output consonants, thereby rendering surface phonological representations in tandem w…