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...

The modifications that foreign loanwords undergo when adapted into Japanese have been the subject of much study in linguistics. The scholarly interest of the topic can be attributed to the fact that Japanese loanwords undergo a complex series of phonological adaptations, something which has been puzzling scholars for decades. While previous studies of Japanese loanword accommodation have focuse...

This study presents a formal generative model that integrates perception and reading, and uses English intervocalic consonants borrowed into Italian as either singletons or geminates to illustrate how the model works. Consisting of words borrowed in the 20th century, our data show that the quantity of the intervocalic consonant in an Italian loanword depends on its written representation in Eng...

The distribution of geminate obstruents in Japanese loanwords appears very complex. Some consonants are more prone to gemination than others, on the one hand, and one and the same consonant is more likely to geminate in some phonological contexts than in others, on the other hand. This paper tackles these problems by considering the relationship between consonant gemination in native words and ...

In the loanword phonology of Japanese, voiced obstruent geminates ([bb, dd, gg]) have been claimed to devoice when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent within the same morpheme (e.g. /beddo/ → [betto] ‘bed’). This devoicing pattern has contributed much to address a number of theoretical issues in the recent phonological literature. However, the relevant data have been primarily based on ...

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...

Introduction: The research presents experimental data from Nepali to advocate for the perceptionbased analysis of loanword adaptation. There are three competing phonological processes for breaking consonant clusters (prothesis, anaptyxis and metathesis). Auditory discrimination experiments show that the selection of a phonological process (during production) is done such that there is maximum p...

In this seventh part of paper series, additional Turkic (i.e. Yakut) and Tungusic Ewen or Ewenki) loanword etymologies for the Yukaghir languages dialects are presented evaluated in semantic, phonological other considerations viewpoints. summary, a total ten Yakut borrowings, two borrowings given, as well one borrowing Ewenki. An extra section interest presents some new Tundra field data, lastl...