Loan Phonology

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-4823-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 307, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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 in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language’s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calabrese, Andrea

Wetzels, W. Leo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
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 Ira 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