Loan phonology
by Wetzels, Leo, Calabrese, Andrea
fromCurrent 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 …
Loan phonology: issues and controversies / Andrea Calabrese & 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 Ro…
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 …