This paper examines the Scandinavian terminology for ‘soot’ in connection with a number of Saami appellatives view to deciding which them are native and result from borrowing. Special attention is paid problem adopting loanwords Northern Europe, especially Peninsula. Two Proto- Germanic words denoting discussed morphological etymological point view. It suggested that West noun *hrōta- m./n. clo...

Previous research in cross-language perception has shown that non-native listeners often assimilate both single phonemes and phonotactic sequences to native language categories. This study examined whether associating meaning with words containing non-native phonotactics assists listeners in distinguishing the non-native sequences from native ones. In the first experiment, American English list...

Japanese loanword adaptations show an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in words from French and English, respectively: while word-final [n] is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is adapted as a geminate nasal followed by an epenthetic vowel in loanwords from French. We provide evidence that this asymmetry originates in the way Japanese speakers perceiv...

It is challenging to translate names and technical terms from English into Arabic. Translation is usually done phonetically: different alphabets and sound inventories force various compromises. For example, Peter Streams may come out as hr..~ ~ bytr szrymz. This process is called transliteration. We address here the reverse problem: given a foreign name or loanword in Arabic text, we want to re...

The article discusses the words fokka (verb) and fokk (noun) in Icelandic. These have a dual origin language. On one hand, verb was probably first borrowed from older Danish or Low German already 17th century, noun later derived it. other much more recent loanword, E. fuck (verb, noun, exclamation), took same form language, both writing pronunciation. This happened even though Icelandic phonota...

This paper provides an overview of theoretical and experimental investigations of voiced geminates in Japanese. Active discussion was initiated by Nishimura’s (2003) discovery that in Japanese loanword phonology, voiced geminates can be devoiced, when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent (e.g. /doggu/ → /dokku/). This context-sensitive devoicing of geminates has received much theoretical...

We introduce the development of the Electronic Lexicon of Contemporary Newborn Chinese Words: (1) the definition of a newborn word, (2) the main principle behind constructing the lexicon, (3) the collection of newborn words and their feature descriptions of them, and (4) the classification of 40,000 newborn words. In our opinion, a new bornword is a character string that appeared after 1978 in ...

The article is devoted to an ambiguous and problematic issue related Ukrainian- Basque linguistic ties. By lexical parallels (they can also be called conditional isoglosses) the author of this study means hypothetical borrowings-internationalisms (Europeanisms), presumably origin. Examples basquisms in Ukrainian language (багнет, більярд, анчоус, i.e. ʽbayonet, billiard, anchovy’) have been giv...

The practically universal promotion of internationalisation and globalisation, coupled with the technological and scientific advances of the preceding decades, has provided a fertile ground for accelerated absorption of lexical neologisms reflecting the rapid changes in the social and material cultures of the different speech communities of the world. However, despite the universality of the la...

VAIDYA BHAGWAN DASH, Tibetan medicine with special reference to Yoga Sataka, Dharamsala, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, 390, £6.00. Reviewed by Marianne Winder, M. A., A. LA., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road. London NW! 2BP. Here is a book by a man who is a physician, a scholar, and active in public life, three qualities not often comb...