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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"loanword"”.
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… the English semantics of English lexis that is loanwords in the Japanese language and the predictive strength of the variables of semantic distance, concreteness/abstractness, polysemy, phonological distance, number of syllables, number of phonemes, number of letters, part of speech (POS), …
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Loanword and onset consonant cluster perception by L1 Korean/L2 English speakers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Loanwords and the perceptual map : a perspective from MaxEnt Learning
… models of grammar within the domain of loanword phonology. These models, formulated within a Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) framework, have been shown to be successful when simulating the effects that a substantive bias such as the Perceptual Map (PMap) hypothesis of Steriade (2001) may have …
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An examination of how loanwords in a corpus of spoken and written contemporary isiXhosa are incorporated into the noun class system of isiXhosa
… specifically on contemporary borrowed, or loanword nouns in isiXhosa which are brought into the noun class system of the language via a number of different noun class prefixes. The focus of this study is to understand whether there are any features or properties, whether morphological or …
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新加坡闽南话英语借词的音系分析 = THE PHONOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN SINGAPORE HOKKIEN
Lexical borrowings, or simply, loanwords, are adoption of vocabulary items from another language or dialect. In Singapore Hokkien, this is reflected in the large number of English and Malay loanwords as a result of language contact. When loanwords from the source language enter a recipient …
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis
… asymmetries in vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation and in non-native cluster perception. The central argument is that auditory factors affect the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn plays an important …
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Adoption of Aspiration Feature in Sino-Korean Phonology
… usage, the term Sino-Korean refers to Chinese loanwords in Korean, but in this dissertation, it is used for a phonological system of Chinese-character readings (or pronunciation) derived from Middle Chinese. Although most sound correspondences between Sino-Korean and Middle Chinese are quite …
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On the Syllable Structure of English Pidgins and Creoles.
… in first and second language phonology, in loanword phonology, and in the English pidgins and creoles.
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THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE KATAKANA WORD RECOGNITION TRAINING AMONG NOVICE LEARNERS OF JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
… katakana, is mainly used to transcribe Western loanwords. Due to the sound alternations resulting from the process of borrowing, learners of Japanese often experience difficulties in reading and writing katakana loanwords. Thus, this study investigates the effectiveness of online katakana word …
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English loanwords in Thai and optimality theory
This study focuses on English loanwords in Thai, particularly the treatment of consonants in different environments, namely onset/coda simplification, laryngeal features, medial consonants, and liquid alternation, within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT: Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004). The …
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Visualising categorical data: Linguistic case studies from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English
… with categorical attributes to explore Māori loanword co-occurrence in New Zealand English newspaper articles. We find that loanwords tend not to occur in isolation and that New Zealanders are still importing new (unlisted) borrowings from Māori. Ultimately, the techniques developed in this …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… (1) to describe the variation of Spanish loanwords within a bilingual community in Salcedo; (2) to analyze some of the prominent and recent structural changes in Quichua and Spanish; (3) to determine whether Spanish loanword use can be explained by the relationship consultants have with …
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A sociolinguistic investigation of Acehnese with a focus on West Acehnese: a stigmatised dialect.
… different vowel correspondences in Indonesian loanwords and in some cases replace Indonesian vowels with the vowel /ɯ/, which is unusual amongst the world’s languages. Some differences characterise North Acehnese as a ‘refined,’ ‘standard,’ and ‘prestigious’ Acehnese variety and West Acehnese …