In the loanword phonology of Japanese, voiced obstruent geminates ([bb, dd, gg]) have been claimed to devoice when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent within the same morpheme (e.g. /beddo/ → [betto] ‘bed’). This devoicing pattern has contributed much to address a number of theoretical issues in the recent phonological literature. However, the relevant data have been primarily based on ...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

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 tho...