scholarly journals Perception, production and acoustic inputs in loanword phonology

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Calabrese
Keyword(s):  
Loanword Phonology

Simple metathesis in loanword phonology: the Arabic-Romance language contact

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1084
Author(s):  
Yvonne Kiegel-Keicher
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Stressed Syllable ◽  
Romance Language ◽  
Syllable Weight ◽  
Systematic Process ◽  
Loanword Phonology

AbstractSimple metathesis can be found in numerous Ibero-Romance arabisms compared with their Andalusi Arabic etyma. The analysis of a corpus of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan arabisms illustrates its effects on syllable structure and syllable weight. It can be shown that Arabic-Romance simple metathesis constitutes a motivated structural change that provides for typologically unmarked syllable weight relations within the word. After the resyllabification it entails the involved unstressed syllables no longer excede the stressed syllable in weight. However, it is not an obligatory, systematic process, but merely an optional tendency, which corresponds to the universal tendency expressed by the Weight Law.

Phonetics versus phonology: English word final /s/ in Korean loanword phonology

Lingua ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 116 (7) ◽  
pp. 1008-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Davis ◽  
Mi-Hui Cho
Keyword(s):  
English Word ◽  
Loanword Phonology

Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology

Lingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 103160
Author(s):  
Jungyeon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Loanword Phonology

A Structural Account of Root Node Deletion in Loanword Phonology

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-404 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Multiple scansions in loanword phonology: evidence from Cantonese

Phonology ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Phonological Representation ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Phonological Structure ◽  
Loanword Phonology ◽  
Phonological System

In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and ultimately produce forms which have been generated by a different phonological system. We are interested in how speakers instantiate segmental and prosodic structure on an input which may or may not abide by native rules. Crucial to this assumed strategy is the idea that loanwords do not come equipped with their own phonological representation. For any phonetic string, it is only native speakers for whom a fully articulated phonological structure is present; as we will see, the input to loanword phonology is merely a superficial non-linguistic acoustic signal. Thus as host-language speakers perceive foreign forms in accordance with their indigenous phonological system, they instantiate native phonological representations on the acoustic signal, fitting the superficial input into the native phonological system as closely as possible.

scholarly journals Nonce-loan judgments and impossible-nativization effects in Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Smith ◽  
Yuka Tashiro
Keyword(s):  
The Core ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Loanword Phonology

The core-periphery structure of the Japanese lexicon is well documented (e.g., Ito & Mester 1995ab, 1999), but there is some controversy as to whether it is synchronically productive. Productive core-periphery structure should show synchronic evidence for a HIERARCHY OF FOREIGNNESS (Kiparsky 1973) among non-native phonological structures, and should give rise to IMPOSSIBLE-NATIVIZATION EFFECTS (Ito & Mester 1999, 2001)--speakers should reject a nonce loanword that nativizes a 'less-foreign' structure while preserving a 'more-foreign' one. We carried out an experiment to collect nonce-loan nativization judgments from speakers of Japanese in order to test these claims. We found, first, that participants have a hierarchy of foreignness that is approximately like the predicted one, but differs in the relative markedness of singleton [p] and sequences of nasal+voiceless obstruent; we also found some interspeaker variation in the hierarchy. Second, while most participants showed nativization preferences that look like impossible- nativization effects, not all participants had a consistent hierarchy of preferences across all constraint pairs. These results have implications both for the phonological analysis of existing stratum-specific alternations in Japanese and for theoretical approaches to loanword phonology.

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