Angola is characterized by many different languages and social, cultural political realities, which had a marked effect on Angolan Portuguese (AP). Consequently, AP diatopic variation. One of the effects in loanwords imported from other languages. Our objective to analyze texts, lexical forms used conduct comparative study with European Portuguese, whose aim identify possible Angolan. This proc...

This paper will outline some of the restrictions on what can and cannot appear at the end of a Burmese word. We will see that historical changes have resulted in a rather unusual phonotactic distribution. By looking at how Burmese speakers treat foreign loanwords in their language, it will be revealed what phonological principles the Burmese have generated in order to make sense of their phonot...

Source-similarity effects in loanword adaptation are formalized in Correspondence Theory (McCarthy and Prince, 1995). A correspondence relation holds between the loanword and the pLs representation, the borrower’s posited representation of the source-language form; including the pLs representation in the model allows a consistent account of the interaction between phonological adaptation proces...

The purpose of this article is to determine the phonemic status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani dialect of Miyankangi. Auditory tests applied to the relevant data show that [ʔ] occurs mainly in word-initial position, where it stands in free variation with Ø. The only place where [h] is heard is in Arabic and Persian loanwords, and only in the pronunciation of some speakers who are educated and/or...

Abstract Research suggests that English-derived loanwords in Japanese can affect learners' acquisition and receptive knowledge of their English words origin (‘basewords'). This study adopts a corpus-based approach to expand on this research by exploring the effects productive knowledge. It primarily uses corpus written produced learners English, native speakers, samples from compare quantitativ...

This paper focuses on loanword phonology in the context of Spanish words that have become part English lexicon 20th century. The background section shows attention has been paid to used from a lexical point view, but scarcely regarding phonology. Furthermore, few existing studies do not deal depth with and as an example crosslinguistic contact. Therefore, this aims at contributing explanation p...