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Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual
Chang, C. B.. - : Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2012
Abstract: Following phonological and phonetic models of loanword adaptation, I present evidence from Burmese in favor of an intermediate model of loanword adaptation incorporating both language-independent phonetics and language-particular phonology. On the basis of a corpus of 200 loanword adaptations from English into Burmese, I first show that Burmese loanword adaptation involves a phonological scansion of phonemically relevant detail, as well as a phonetic scansion of phonemically irrelevant detail. These findings suggest that a model of loanword adaptation incorporating both phonetics and phonology is the most empirically sound. While loanword adaptations are indeed highly influenced by phonetic similarity, bilinguals play a leading role in adaptation, allowing the phonology of L2 to have a profound effect on adaptations in L1. The relative ranking of these phonetic and phonological considerations, then, appears to be a language-specific matter.
Keyword: Africa; Oceania; P Philology. Linguistics; PE English; PI Oriental languages and literatures; PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia
URL: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19108/
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