The emergence of phonological adaptation from phonetic adaptation: English loanwords in Korean  

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Kang, Yoonjung

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 02 (Aug. 2010), page 225-253.
Fulltext: Kang_Yoonjung, p. 205-224.pdf (1.71MB)

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This paper provides a detailed diachronic account of the adaptation of the English posterior coronal obstruents /S C J/ in Contemporary Korean. These consonants are variably adapted with a glide (/j/ or /w/), and the distribution of the glides is conditioned by phonetic and phonological characteristics of the English input, as well as native phonotactic restrictions. The diachronic change in the occurrence of /w/ serves as an example of a variable phonetic detail in the input that is faithfully represented in loans in earlier stages, but which is subsequently eliminated in the emerging norm. Given this data, I propose how what, on the surface, may appear to be a ‘phonological ’ adaptation can arise through regularisation of what is essentially a ‘phonetic’ adaptation. This study highlights the complexity of loanword adaptation and the importance of examining all of the different factors shaping this process.

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