On Chinese Loanwords in English

English loanwords in Japanese

As a result of the economic, political and cultural influence of Britain and the US, and the emergence of English as an international language, many world languages have absorbed loanwords from English, especially during the twentieth century. Japanese contains thousands of such borrowings, many of which are well-established and in universal use. A domestic phonetic script is available to both ...

English loanwords in Mandarin Chinese: A perception experiment approach

In the field of Mandarin Chinese (MC) loanword study, there is no consensus among researchers about tonal adaptation patterns. The purpose of the current study is to re-examine the syllable onset effect in MC native speakers’ online adaptation of English words. We suggest that there is a difference in the patterns that are observed in established loanwords with settled orthography in MC and tho...

Tonal adaptation of English loanwords in Cantonese

This study examines the tonal adaptation of English loanwords in Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong. We adopted the analyses of previous research (Kiu, 1977; Silverman, 1992) and incorporated seeming exceptions. The major rules are: 1) The stressed syllable in English usually bears the high tone in Cantonese, and it includes both primary and secondary stress. 2) If the English word is (historically)...

Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based Atlantic creole of Suriname

1. The language and its speakers 1.1. Sociohistorical background Saramaccan is an Atlantic creole spoken primarily in Suriname, though there are also speakers in French Guiana as well as a substantial diaspora population in the Netherlands. The fifteenth edition of the Ethnologue estimates that there are about 26,000 speakers of the languages. It is a maroon creole—that is, a creole spoken by d...

English loanwords in Polish and the question of gender assignment