Loan phonology

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 nativiz...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Calabrese, Andrea, 1956- (-), Wetzels, Leo
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co 2009.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; 307.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423462106719
Table of Contents:
  • Loan phonology: issues and controversies / Andrea Calabrese & W. Leo Wetzels
  • Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception / Paul Boersma & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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.