Donohue et al.’s critique of our work on the origins and spread of the Austronesian language family is marred by misunderstandings of our approach. We respond to these by noting that our Bayesian phylogenetic approach: (1) distinguishes between retentions and innovations probabilistically, (2) focuses on basic vocabulary not ‘the lexicon’, (3) eliminates known loanwords, (4) produces results th...

Abstract Regardless of the modern settlement their speakers, South Siberian Turkic languages evidence largest number Mongolic loanwords. At same time, layer loanwords in these varies greatly. Interestingly, Kirghiz language has quite a few borrowings, following borrowings from languages. According to my preliminary compiled materials, more than 300 words are indisputably origin. Most were most ...

The Middle English period is well known as one of widespread lexical borrowing from French and Latin, scholarly accounts traditionally assume that this influx loanwords caused many native terms to shift in sense or drop out use entirely. study analyses an extensive dataset, tracking patterns retention, replacement semantic change, comparing long-term outcomes for both non-native words. Our resu...

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...

We propose here an approach of the morphophonological treatment of borrowed lexical items in the general French lexicon, through the mecanims of the functionning of the TTS Toph. We will show how the methodology we adopted in this TTS allows us to distinguish two levels of processing, adapted to the nature of the items. After the display of the typology of phonetic transfers we will focus on th...

The focus of this paper is on two types of shortening observed in recent Japanese loanwords and on the trochaic shortening in Fijian. I will argue that the Japanese shortenings take place when a metrically unstable binary foot (extrametrical foot) becomes a stray mora so as to be accommodated into one of the two proposed surface ternary foot structures whereas Fijian Trochaic Shortening occurs ...

With the advent of informal electronic communications such as social media, colloquial languages that were historically unwritten are being written for the first time in heavily code-switched environments. We present a method for inducing portions of translation lexicons through the use of expert knowledge in these settings where there are approximately zero resources available other than a lan...