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...

Within the field of Loanword Phonology, the issue of diachronic change and social variation has only recently begun to be addressed. With respect to diachronic change, Kang (2010) argues that the driving forces in loanword adaptation can evolve over time, with early adaptation being primarily perceptually-driven and later adaptation involving more categorical mappings at the abstract/systemic l...

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...

There is great variation in whether foreign sounds in loanwords are adapted or retained. Importantly, the retention of foreign sounds can lead to a sound change in the language. We propose that social factors influence the likelihood of loanword sound adaptation, and use this case to introduce a novel experimental paradigm for studying language change that captures the role of social factors. S...

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...

This study investigated Japanese speakers’ second language (L2) phonological adaptation processes by examining the production of L2 with particular reference to speech rhythm and timing. In addition it examined the effectiveness of proposed L2 phonological adaptation rules in different prosodic units, namely word and phrase. Languages use different prosodic units to maintain their speech rhythm...

The high front rounded vowel [y] is usually borrowed into Russian as /u/ with palatalization of the preceding consonant: e.g. /mɛnu/ < Fr. menu, /dunɑ/ < Germ. Düne. Paradis (2006) argues that this poses a problem for the phonetic view on loanword adaptation, claiming that /Cu/ sequences are “cross-linguistically rare” and “perceptually unnatural”. She further argues that only the phonological ...

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...