Overview

For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. This title offers an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language's sound pattern.

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Author:   Andrea Calabrese (University of Connecticut, Storrs) ,  W. Leo Wetzels (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle/ LPP, CNRS & VU University Amsterdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   307
Weight:   0.675kg
ISBN:  

9789027248237

ISBN 10:   9027248230
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   30 November 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Loan phonology: Issues and controversies (by Calabrese, Andrea); 3. Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception (by Boersma, Paul); 4. Perception, production and acoustic inputs in loanword phonology (by Calabrese, Andrea); 5. The adaptation of Romanian loanwords from Turkish and French (by Friesner, Michael L.); 6. Mandarin adaptations of coda nasals in English loanwords (by Hsieh, Feng-fan); 7. Korean adaptation of English affricates and fricatives in a feature-driven model of loanword adaptation (by Kim, Hyunsoon); 8. The role of underlying representations in L2 Brazilian English (by Nevins, Andrew); 9. Early bilingualism as a source of morphonological rules for the adaptation of loanwords: Spanish loanwords in Basque (by Onederra, Miren Lourdes); 10. Nondistinctive features in loanword adaptation: The unimportance of English aspiration in Mandarin Chinese phoneme categorization (by Paradis, Carole); 11. Gemination in English loans in American varieties of Italian (by Repetti, Lori); 12. Nasal harmony and the representation of nasality in Maxacali: Evidence from Portuguese loans (by Wetzels, W. Leo); 13. Index of subjects and terms

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In sum, if, as the editors note in their introduction, the way in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted in the recipient language offers a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorised in terms of the distinctive features relevant to that recipient language and for studying its phonological processes in action, then this collection of essays really qualifies as a room with a splendid view. It is most certainly a must-have for every phonologist [...] and will be of great interest to linguists interested in language contact and bilingualism or multilingualism. -- Haike Jacobs, Radboud University Nijmegen, in Phonology 28 (2011)

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