russian loanword adaptation in persian; optimal approach

Russian Loanword Adaptation in Persian; Optimal Approach

In this paper we analyzed some of the phonological rules of Russian loanword adaptation in Persian, on the view of Optimal Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky, 1993, 2003). It is the first study of phonological process on Russian loanwords adaptation in Persian. By gathering about 50 current Russian loanwords, we selected some of them to analyze. We found out that vowel insertion, vowel prothesis...

Consonants in Cantonese Loanword Adaptation

Gemination in Hungarian loanword adaptation

An interesting puzzle of Hungarian phonology is gemination in recent loanwords borrowed from English, German (and occasionally, from French). A consonant following a short stressed vowel is often geminated in the loanword, even if the consonant doubling does not have an orthographic reflex in the source word, i.e. the consonant in question is not spelt as a double letter in the source word. Unl...

Loanword Adaptation and Phonological Theory

This paper examines English-based loanwords in Standard Mandarin in light of various proposals on how loanwords are adapted and processed, and discusses the implications of the findings in loanword adaptation for phonological theory. There have been three major approaches to the adaptation and processing of sound-based loanwords: the Perception Approach, the Phonology Approach, and the Percepti...

german loanwords adaptation in persian: optimality approach

this paper aims at describing the mechanism of german loanwords adaptation with respect to constraints of persian language and within ot framework. consequently the adaptation of consonant clusters and diphthongs as well as the phonemes substituted in loanwords will be examined. prince and smolensky’s (1993) optimality theory with its key notions of faithfulness and markedness constraints is su...

Loanword Adaptation in Québec French: Evidence for Weighted Scalar Constraints

A considerable body of research has demonstrated that loanwords often pattern differently than native vocabulary with respect to markedness restrictions. Most commonly, clearly “foreign” words observe a subset of the markedness restrictions obeyed by more nativized words (Saciuk 1969, Holden 1976, Paradis & Lebel 1994, Itô & Mester 1995, 1999, 2008, Paradis & LaCharité 1997, Davidson & Noyer 19...