This study investigated Japanese speakers’ second language (L2) phonological adaptation processes by examining the production of L2 with particular reference to speech rhythm and timing. In addition it examined the effectiveness of proposed L2 phonological adaptation rules in different prosodic units, namely word and phrase. Languages use different prosodic units to maintain their speech rhythm...

in this paper we analyzed some of the phonological rules of russian loanword adaptation in persian, on the view of optimal theory (ot) (prince and smolensky, 1993, 2003). it is the first study of phonological process on russian loanwords adaptation in persian. by gathering about 50 current russian loanwords, we selected some of them to analyze. we found out that vowel insertion, vowel prothesis...

Building on previous works (e.g. Kubozono 2006, and Kang 2010), this article attempts to establish a taxonomy for loanword prosody, referring specifically to the patterns of stress, tone, or pitch-accent that are found in loanwords. Toward a taxonomy, we consider the following factors: (i) whether the pronunciation of the word in the source language influences the assignment of prosody in the b...

Acoustic analysis of [tSi] tokens produced in native words by two generations of Japanese speakers reveals a systematic influence of prosodic structure on the duration of frication following the release of consonant closure. This phonetic gradience supports a phonological contrast in loanwords that is absent from the native system. Implications of the data for phonological theories of loanword ...

The high front rounded vowel [y] is usually borrowed into Russian as /u/ with palatalization of the preceding consonant: e.g. /mɛnu/ < Fr. menu, /dunɑ/ < Germ. Düne. Paradis (2006) argues that this poses a problem for the phonetic view on loanword adaptation, claiming that /Cu/ sequences are “cross-linguistically rare” and “perceptually unnatural”. She further argues that only the phonological ...