Loan phonology / / edited by Andrea Calabrese, W. Leo Wetzels.

• Superior document: Current issues in linguistic theory, 307
• TeilnehmendeR: Calabrese, Andrea, 1956-; Wetzels, Leo.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; 307.
• Physical Description: 273 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 nativiz...

Table of Contents

• Loan phonology: issues and controversies / Andrea Calabrese & W. 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 Romanian loanwords from Turkish and French / Michael L. Friesner
• Mandarin adaptations of coda nasals in English loanwords / Feng-fan Hsieh, Michael Kenstowicz & 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 Nevins & 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 & 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.