Salience and similarity in loanword adaptation: a case study from Fijian  

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Kenstowicz, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 2-3 (2007), page 316-340.
Topik: Loanword adaptation; Fijian; Auditory salience and similarity
Fulltext: Kenstowicz_Michael, p. 316-340.pdf (951.52KB)

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This paper analyzes the corpus of English loanwords into Fijian assembled by Schu¨ tz [Schu¨ tz, A., 1978. English loanwords in Fijian. In: Schu¨ tz, A. (Ed.), Fijian Language Studies: Borrowing and Pidginization. Bulletin of Fiji Museum No. 4, pp. 1–50] from the perspective of Optimality Theoretic faithfulness based on the notions of auditorysalience and similarity [Steraide, D., 2001. Directional asymmetries in place assimilation: a perceptual account. In: Hume, E., Johnson, K. (Eds.), The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 219–250; Steraide, D., 2001. The Phonology of Perceptibility Effects: the P-map and its Consequences for Constraint Organization. Unpublished UCLA ms]. Four topics are discussed: stress, consonant cluster resolution, variation in the form of the epenthetic vowel, and the adaptation of voiced stops.

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