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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"loanwords"”.
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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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Phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic
… the phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA) in order to enhance our understanding of phonological theory and of AA phonology. The thesis also serves as documentation of the dialect in a state of flux. In contrast to previous studies, this study accounts for the …
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An analysis of loanwords in selected isiXhosa texts
Loanwords are well researched in many of the world's languages, but there is a dearth of research into their occurrence and significance in isiXhosa. Previous research on isiXhosa borrowed words concentrates on contemporary speech, but this study focuses on written texts, drawing on sources from …
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Loanwords and the perceptual map : a perspective from MaxEnt Learning
… often choose to repair phonotactically-illicit loanwords in ways that are not attested in their native grammar. It thus provides a wealth of data about how speakers structure their grammar in the absence of overt phonological evidence. To this end, a case study of English loanword adaptation in …
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An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo
… phonological and morphological changes which the loanwords from German go through to fit into the Oshiwambo speech system. The study further established the phonological rules that account for these changes. The study adopted the Natural Generative Phonology theory which was propagated by Hopper …
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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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A Reconstructed History of the Chari Languages--Comparative Bongo-Bagirmi-Sara Segmental Phonology With Evidence From Arabic Loanwords
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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 study of english loanwords in French written texts and advertisements and the perceptions and attitudes of the francophone readership
… scope and perception of the use of English loanwords (ELWs) in the French language remains incompletely understood. This study examined the frequency and types of ELWs appearing in French written texts (FWTs) and advertisements (ads); and also explored the perceptions of natives of France …
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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
… noun class prefix is the most productive for loanwords, as well as to argue the existence of a significant amount of variation in terms of prefixes used. The study concludes that most loanword nouns are assigned to Noun Class 9, but some speakers also use Noun Classes 1a, 5 and 7 as …
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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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Talk Like an Egyptian: Egyptian Influence and Appropriation in the Book of Exodus
… the Exodus as recorded in the Bible appropriates loanwords, phrases, symbols, beliefs, cosmology, and much more material from Egypt; all of which gives great indication that the author of the Book of Exodus obviously had intimate knowledge of Egyptian culture.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In sum, the …
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The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/
… in the source language are borrowed as long in loanwords. It is generally considered to be an 'unnecessary' adaptation (Peperkamp, 2005), because it does not repair any illegal sequences in the native phonotactics of the borrowing languages. Hungarian is a particularly interesting case of a …
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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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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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Unsupervised learning of lexical subclasses from phonotactics
… and phonotactics, the native words and the loanwords of the borrower language can also exhibit dierent phonology/ phonotactics. Accordingly, it has been proposed that the phonotactics of languages such as Japanese is better explained if words are classified into etymologically defined …
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Selected aspects of language contact in the case of Czech, with a particular focus on lexical borrowing and changing attitudes to the self and others
… case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the critical reception of foreign vocabulary in Czech (‘The legacy and …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… variants for linguistic variables stress in loanwords and plural definite article suffixes. The investigation considers linguistic ideals that speakers link to codification of language (correctness), education or the capital city and attest that language that can be linked to all these ideals …
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An annotated edition of two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon, De Decem Ingeniis
… Latin, Greco-Latin, and Arabic. A list of these loanwords appearing in both treatises is supplied in the introduction. Thereby the thesis also aims to give a snapshot of the prevailing situation around the time of writing, elucidating the state of 16th-century semantics, lexicon and usage of …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
… in the Peshitta, examines the use of Greek loanwords in P-Gen and evaluates them in the larger context of the Greek and Syriac languages and the contact between them. The second part examines three types of relationship: places where P seems to follow all or part of a verse from LXX (Gen …
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