Korean adaptation of English affricates and fricatives in a feature-driven model of loanword adaptation

Loanword corpora have been an important tool in studying the relationship between speech perception and native-language phonotactics. Recent work has challenged this use of loanword corpora on methodological grounds, based on the fact that source and possibly loan orthography conditions the adaptation. The present study replicates and extends this finding by using information theory to quantify the relative strength of orthographic effects, in the adaptation of English vowels into Korean. It is found that the orthographic effect is strong for unstressed vowels, but almost unnoticable for stressed vowels. It is proposed that orthography plays a large role in adaptation only when the source form is perceptually compatible with multiple phonological parses in the borrowing language.

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Seen and not heard: The relationship of orthography, morphology, and phonology in loanword adaptation in the German hip hop community

Discourse Context & Media ◽

10.1016/j.dcm.2013.11.001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 27-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Matt Garley

Keyword(s):

Hip Hop ◽

Loanword Adaptation ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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A Structural Account of Root Node Deletion in Loanword Phonology

The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique ◽

10.1017/s0008413100017473 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 359-404 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Yvan Rose

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Constraints ◽

Loanword Adaptation ◽

Root Node ◽

Nasal Vowels ◽

Loanword Phonology ◽

Structural Account ◽

Segmental Representations

AbstractParadis and LaCharité (1996, 1997) have proposed a model of loanword adaptation, couched within theTheory of Constraints and Repair Strategies(Paradis 1988a,b). One of the mechanisms used in their model, called the Threshold Principle, first advanced by Paradis, Lebel, and LaCharité (1993), poses problems. This principle, whose implementation implies arithmetic counting, goes counter to standard views of generative phonology against counting. In this article, an analysis of deletion contexts found in loanwords which accounts for the data observed on structural grounds only is developed without any appeal to arithmetic counting. Based on the adaptation of French rising diphthongs and nasal vowels in two languages, Fula and Kinyarwanda, it is argued that an analysis based solely on the segmental representations of the foreign forms to adapt and the segmental and syllabic constraints of the borrowing language is sufficient to make correct predictions regarding the adaptation patterns found in these languages.

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The adaptation of French liquids in Haitian

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ◽

10.1075/jpcl.00020.sto ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 386-410

Author(s):

Benjamin Storme

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Second Language Acquisition ◽

Language Acquisition ◽

Sound Change ◽

Loanword Adaptation ◽

Perceptual Asymmetry ◽

The Way

Abstract Haitian, a French-lexifier creole with a Gbe substrate, shows an asymmetry in the way it has adapted French liquids: the French lateral was maintained in postvocalic coda position in Haitian, but the French rhotic was systematically deleted in this position. This paper presents the results of a perception study showing that the lateral is generally more perceptible than the rhotic in coda position in Modern French. The hypothesis that perception played a role in the phonological asymmetry in Haitian is compatible with these results. The paper sketches an analysis of how the perceptual asymmetry between French coda laterals and rhotics resulted in the emergence of a new phonological grammar, distinct from both the grammar of the substrate and superstrate languages. This analysis is in line with previous works on the role of perception in second language acquisition, loanword adaptation, creolization, and sound change more generally.

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The effect of perceptual similarity, frequency, and phonotactic restriction in loanword adaptation

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.5067946 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 144 (3) ◽

pp. 1801-1801

Author(s):

Yang-Yu Chen ◽

Yu-an Lu

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Similarity ◽

Loanword Adaptation

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Some Effects of English Loanword Adaptation into SiLozi

International Journal of Education ◽

10.5296/ije.v10i4.13422 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Georgina Nandila Sitali-Mubanga

Keyword(s):

Social Studies ◽

Education System ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Medium Of Instruction ◽

Lingua Franca ◽

Loanword Adaptation ◽

African Languages ◽

Western Province ◽

English Loanword ◽

Phonological Rules

This study under linguistics, sought to examine the Morphophonological effects of the English loanword adaptation into SiLozi a lingua franca of the Western province of Zambia which is a media of instruction in grades one to three for systematisation. Like many African languages, SiLozi does not have the potential to give equivalents to words of English origin unless through borrowing. Schools being the pivot of development, there was an inconsistency in the same education system concerning the adaptation of English loanwords. The study was carried out in selected primary schools of Mongu district in Zambia. The data were collected with the use of voice recorders during on-going lessons for grades one to three in Creative and Technology Studies, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and in SiLozi subjects in order to capture all English loanwords used in the SiLozi medium of instruction. The main results revealed that feature changing, deletion, insertion and metathesis phonological rules were applied on the English terms in order to nativise them.

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Creole phonological restructuring

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ◽

10.1075/jpcl.25.2.03rus ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 263-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eric Russell

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

Second Language Learning ◽

Causal Factor ◽

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Loanword Adaptation ◽

Formal Framework ◽

Target Languages

This article examines the influence of perception on creole phonological restructuring, drawing comparisons to loanword adaptation and second language learning and outlining a formal framework within which change can be described and explained. The three scenarios of contact-induced modification are compared and contrasted, focusing on the nature of contact, the role of different source and target languages, and the means by which participants access source tokens. Data from Haitian, showing diachronic modification to lexifier rhotics, is used to illustrate the position that perception may be the primary causal factor in phonological modification in some instances. It is argued that source ambiguity and substrate (L1) perceptual knowledge underlie restructuring. Perceptual competence is formalized in a broadly Optimality Theoretic grammar using level-specific constraints referring to the parsing and categorization of experiential input. Putative substrate data are used to establish a perceptual grammar which, when applied to experiential input, predict attested outcomes in Haitian.

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