Loanword phonology seeks to model the process by which foreign words are ‘nativised’ or incorporated into the phonological system of the ‘borrowing’ language. We can conceive of this as a parsing of the phonetic input provided by the foreign word forms, in accordance with phonological output constraints of the borrowing language. Following Silverman (1992) we conceive loanword formation as fund...

Within the field of Loanword Phonology, the issue of diachronic change and social variation has only recently begun to be addressed. With respect to diachronic change, Kang (2010) argues that the driving forces in loanword adaptation can evolve over time, with early adaptation being primarily perceptually-driven and later adaptation involving more categorical mappings at the abstract/systemic l...

Abstract Loanwords are lexical terms borrowed from foreign languages by transliterating the original sound of words with recipient language’s consonants and vowels. This paper focuses on borrowing in Korean language a diachronic perspective. Based approximately 9,500 loanwords extracted corpus women’s magazine articles residential sections (the Contemporary Residential Culture Corpus), we inves...

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...

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...

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...