English loanwords in Mandarin Chinese: A perception experiment approach
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In the field of Mandarin Chinese (MC) loanword study, there is no consensus among researchers about tonal adaptation patterns. The purpose of the current study is to re-examine the syllable onset effect in MC native speakers’ online adaptation of English words. We suggest that there is a difference in the patterns that are observed in established loanwords with settled orthography in MC and those that are observed in online adaptation tasks. Furthermore, we show that bilinguals are more sensitive to the phonetic characteristics of the source words than monolinguals.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015