In order to investigate to what extent perceptual factors affect the borrowing process, we examined the borrowing of English obstruents in Korean by comparing loanword adaptation patterns with the natives’ P-map (Steriade, 2001b). The orthographic classification technique was used to obtain the P-map (e.g., Wiik, 1965; Schmidt, 1996); 40 native Koreans were asked to choose the best matching Kor...

Introduction . The article discusses loanwords as one of the ways to expand lexis, attitude towards foreign language units in German community, particular, purist movements and efforts preserve purity language, a brief analysis modern is carried out. Currently, loanwords, especially those form English, have crucial role process lexis evolution. Analyzing this phenomenon its perception by native...

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...