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 ...

Introduction: The research presents experimental data from Nepali to advocate for the perceptionbased analysis of loanword adaptation. There are three competing phonological processes for breaking consonant clusters (prothesis, anaptyxis and metathesis). Auditory discrimination experiments show that the selection of a phonological process (during production) is done such that there is maximum p...

Comparable corpus is the most important resource in several NLP tasks. However, it is very expensive to collect manually. Lexical borrowing happened in almost all languages. We can use the loanwords to detect useful bilingual knowledge and expand the size of donor-recipient / recipient-donor comparable corpora. In this paper, we propose a recurrent neural network (RNN) based framework to identi...

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)...

Vowel epenthesis processes vary in their characteristics, and many aspects of typology are still under continuous study even English, wherein a lot academic work has been done, much less so Yoruba other African languages where large part research on the phenomenon is evolving. The focus this identification form pattern as well diversity vowel loanwords language. also attempts to identify functi...

Abstract Loanwords are lexical terms borrowed from foreign languages by transliterating the original sound of words with recipient language’s consonants and vowels. This paper focuses on borrowing in Korean language a diachronic perspective. Based approximately 9,500 loanwords extracted corpus women’s magazine articles residential sections (the Contemporary Residential Culture Corpus), we inves...

One of the specificities Arabic is agreement in grammar, which includes several language units. The parts that correspond to other units are gender, numbers, and cases. Conformity also found definiteness, personal pronoun, from phrases sentences. Deciphering sentence its constituent structure can show suitability relationship between This parsing model equivalent I'rāb grammar. will be applied ...

due to the close proximity of mazanadaran and russia there have always been considerable language contacts between the two regions. for example , in mazandarani dialect there have been numerous loanwords borrowed from russian language , while they are not in use in standard persian or its other dialects . this paper will examine these type of loanwords . they are occasionally imported with a di...