The current study aimed to investigate, descriptively, how English loanwords become part of Qunfudhah Arabic Dialect (QAD), an dialect spoken in the southern Saudi Arabia. Hundreds were collected using different resources such as social media posts, news articles, blogs, every-day interactions, and shop signs. purpose was find out triggering motive used by QAD speakers adapt loanwords. In other...

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 purpose of this article is to determine the phonemic status of [h] and [ʔ] in the sistani dialect of miyankangi. auditory tests applied to the relevant data show that [ʔ] occurs mainly in word-initial position, where it stands in free variation with ø. the only place where [h] is heard is in arabic and persian loanwords, and only in the pronunciation of some speakers who are educated and/or...

Abstract This study examines the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms fennicisms in Finland Swedish. Finlandisms are words or structures typical Swedish variety spoken Finland, while a category for which source language is Finnish. Fennicisms often discussed context Finnish influence consequent loss, suggesting that these features stigmatised. The analyses survey responses from 126 individu...

Due to Pashto-English language contact, a large number of words are borrowed from English into Afghani Pashto. These loanwords undergo certain types variation. This study aims at phonemic variations in A corpus 90 was collected ten audio-video programs TV channels. They were news and discussion panels. The conversation Pashto speakers observed for the collection corpus. data analyzed according ...

Loanwords often go under the adaptation process with native words. In loanwords adaptation, phonology has a vital role. The loanword highlights more features in particular language. phonological pattern of is novel. It reflection phonology. English are adapted Lasi. This paper addresses questions: Which sounds substituted Lasi? and How substitutions occur data collected through observation inte...

This study is entitled “Deletion and Change of Sounds the Loanwords into Kurdish Language”, which a statistical analytic study. Study instruments have been allocated for words borrowed from English language entered language. The comes within field phonology has worked on according to descriptive manner. intends respond question extend phenomenon deletion changing sounds happen that For this pur...