Introductory Remarks on the Stratification of Borrowings through the Work of Mary Serjeantson
Communications, 2010 This paper examines the area of borrowings, the definition of borrowing as a process, the broader debate on the conditions of borrowing, reasons for borrowing describing both linguistic and extralinguistic aspects, the stratification of borrowings with ...
Dalibor Mikulas
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A probabilistic model of loanword accentuation in Japanese
PhonologyThis paper presents a probabilistic model of loanword accentuation in Japanese, analysing a corpus of 3,017 English-based loanwords. Through corpus analysis and computational modelling, the study reveals that Japanese loanword accentuation involves two ...
Hironori Katsuda
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Loanword Syllable Adaptation in Persian: An Optimality-Theoretic Account
Journal of Universal Language, 2019 The present paper examines the process of loanword syllable adaptation in tetrasyllabic words in Persian, within an Optimalitytheoretic framework. In Persian, consonant clusters are avoided in onset position.
Amir Ghorbanpour +3 more
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Loanword accentuation in Japanese: Corpus study, modeling, and experiments [PDF]
, 2023 This dissertation presents a probabilistic model of loanword accentuation in Japanese, based on large-scale corpus data, and a pair of on-line adaptation experiments, in order to gain deeper understanding of the mechanism of assigning loanword accent in ...
Katsuda, Hironori
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An overview and synthesis of research on English loanwords in Japanese
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020 Loanwords in Japanese that share form and meaning with English words are referred to as Japanese-English cognates (e.g., ラジオ /radӡio/ “radio”) and are of fundamental concern for researchers concerned with vocabulary learning and instruction.
David Allen
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Exploring Rule-based and Idiosyncratic Loanword Plural Forms in Arabic
International Journal of Linguistics StudiesThis study sought to explore how loanwords in Arabic are pluralized, whether loanword plurals are rule-based or idiosyncratic and the productivity of each type of loanword plural form: The Masculine Sound Plural (MSP), Broken Plural (BP), two or more ...
Reima Al-Jarf
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A possible Celtic loanword in Slavic [PDF]
, 2012 The author discusses the possibility to explain Slavic *voldyka as a Celtic ...
Vykypěl, Bohumil
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“Every word is a world”: loanword ideologies and linguistic purism in post-Soviet Armenia
MultilinguaThrough the analysis of materials such as online articles, blogs, and radio broadcasts, this paper investigates linguistic purism toward Russian and English loanwords in the understudied context of post-Soviet Armenia.
Emma Portugal, Sean Nonnenmacher
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The life of a loanword: A case study of le coming out in the French magazine Têtu (1995–2015)
Ampersand, 2019 In this paper we investigate the sociocultural dimensions of lexical borrowing by focusing on the diachronic use of a socially charged English loanword—le coming out—in Tetu, a popular gay lifestyle magazine that was published in French from 1995 to 2015.
David Divita, W. Curtis
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Gate‐Induced Critical Current Modulation in W–C Nanowires: The Role of Fabrication
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Focused ion beam induced deposition (FIBID) enables precise control of superconducting W–C nanowire devices. Introducing a Ga+ focused ion beam (FIB) cleaning step reduces substrate damage and suppresses leakage currents, shifting gating thresholds to higher voltages.
Alba Arroyo‐Fructuoso +2 more
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