<OT> New Posting: ROA-975

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ROA 975-0608

Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception

Paul Boersma <paul.boersma at uva.nl>
Silke Hamann <hamann at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=975


Abstract:
We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely
in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and
production mechanisms in the first language. We provide
explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena
(in Korean) in terms of an Optimality-Theoretic grammar
model with the same three levels of representation that
are needed to describe L1 phonology: the underlying form,
the phonological surface form, and the auditory-phonetic
form. The model is bidirectional, i.e. the same constraints
and rankings are used by the listener and by the speaker.
These constraints and rankings are the same for L1 processing
and loanword adaptation.

Comments: 
Keywords: loanwords, perception, bidirectionality, Korean
Areas: Phonology,Phonetics
Type: Book Chapter

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=975