Loan phonology / edited by Andrea Calabrese, W. Leo Wetzels.
Material type: TextSeries: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 307.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology, Comparative
- Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology, Comparative
- Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases
- Phonetics, phonology
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- P217.52 .L63 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Loan phonology: issues and controversies / Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels -- Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception / Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann -- Perception, production and acoustic inputs in loanword phonology / Andrea Calabrese -- The adaptation of Romanian loanwords from Turkish and French / Michael L. Friesner -- Mandarin adaptations of coda nasals in English loanwords / Feng-fan Hsieh, Michael Kenstowicz and Xiaomin Mou -- Korean adaptation of English affricates and fricatives in a feature-driven model of loanword adaptation / Hyunsoon Kim -- The role of underlying representations in L2 Brazilian English / Andrew Nevins and David Braun -- Early bilingualism as a source of morphonological rules for the adaptation of loanwords: Spanish loanwords in Basque / Miren Lourdes Oñederra -- Nondistinctive features in loanword adaptation: the unimportance of English aspiration in Mandarin Chinese phoneme categorization / Carole Paradis and Antoine Tremblay -- Gemination in English loans in American varieties of Italian / Lori Repetti -- Nasal harmony and the representation of nasality in Maxacalí: Evidence from Portuguese loans / W. Leo Wetzels -- Index of subjects and terms.
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For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented i.
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