From accouchement to agony1: a lexicological analysis of words of French origin in the modern English language of medicine

Faure, Pascaline

doi:10.4000/lexis.1171

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“…16 Many proper nouns are attested in the corpus, and this is the result of eponymization, which is the process when famous people give their names to products or techniques. Faure (2018) finds '231 name-givers of French origin' concerning the medical lexicon for example. It appears that the names of many French scientists, artists, politicians, or sportspeople have been integrated into English.…”

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Stress in French loanwords in British and American English

Dabouis,

Fournier

2024

J. Ling.

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This paper presents a dictionary-based study of French loanwords in contemporary English in order to investigate the location of primary stress in these loanwords. Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English. Finally, the implications of our findings are discussed in light of a model that assumes that English phonology consists of distinct interacting subsystems.

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