What palatalized consonants can tell us about theories of loanword adaptation
Phonology- and perception-based theories of loanword adaptation clash over two different assumptions: what language background the adapter has and what cognitive component handles adaptation. Phonology-based theories argue that borrowers know both the source and borrowing language and that the phono...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2013-05, Vol.133 (5_Supplement), p.3337-3337 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Phonology- and perception-based theories of loanword adaptation clash over two different assumptions: what language background the adapter has and what cognitive component handles adaptation. Phonology-based theories argue that borrowers know both the source and borrowing language and that the phonology determines output forms; perception-based accounts argue that the borrower does not know the source language and that the phonetic decoder guides adaptation. Since there is no reason to believe that either population of borrowers cannot adapt words, a production experiment was carried out to test both populations/approaches. Four monolingual English and three bilingual English-Russian speakers were played currently unborrowed Russian words containing palatalized consonants and asked to repeat them aloud in an American English accent. Since palatalized velar and coronal stops are often articulated with some degree of affrication and monolinguals are unaware of this, it was predicted that they would sometimes adapt said consonants as affricates (tju > t∫u). However, since bilinguals are familiar with the co-articulatory affrication, they were not predicted to adapt palatalized stops as affricates (tju > tu). The results corroborated the hypothesis in that bilinguals never affricated while monolinguals affricated a tenth of palatalized stops—demonstrating that both theories make the correct predictions for their respective populations. |
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ISSN: | 0001-4966 1520-8524 |
DOI: | 10.1121/1.4805619 |