Gemination in English loans in American varieties of Italian

Repetti, Lori

doi:10.1075/cilt.307.10rep

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“…It is also found in Italian (Repetti 2009) and Cantonese (Yip 1993: 274) loanwords. The conditions that trigger nasal insertion in SM loanwords overlap with those in consonant gemination.…”

Section: When Unnecessary Repairs Become Necessary: the Case Of Nasalmentioning

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“…English intervocalic singleton consonants may be adapted as geminate consonants in loanwords systems such as Japanese (Kubozono et al 2008), Finnish (Karvonen 2005) and American Italian (Repetti 2009), in which stress and vowel types also appear to be relevant. In terms of the implication for the broader context, the fact that similar patterns occur cross-linguistically suggests a common basis that underlies consonant insertion/gemination in loanword adaptation.…”

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When Unnecessary Repairs Become Necessary: The Case of Nasal Insertion in Standard Mandarin Loanwords

Huang

Lin

2016

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“…It is also found in Italian (Repetti 2009) and Cantonese (Yip 1993: 274) loanwords. The conditions that trigger nasal insertion in SM loanwords overlap with those in consonant gemination.…”

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When Unnecessary Repairs Become Necessary: The Case of Nasal Insertion in Standard Mandarin Loanwords

Huang

Lin

2016

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“…The studies by Passino (2008Passino ( , 2013 and Repetti (2009Repetti ( , 2012 are not discussed as they predominantly deal with word-final consonants in Italian loans and the question whether these should be treated as singletons or geminates. Though this is an interesting question, it falls outside the scope of the present paper.…”

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“…For an account of the incorporation of American English words into the Italian of Italian immigrants, see e.g. Repetti (2009).…”

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A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

Hamann

Colombo

2017

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This study presents a formal generative model that integrates perception and reading, and uses English intervocalic consonants borrowed into Italian as either singletons or geminates to illustrate how the model works. Consisting of words borrowed in the 20th century, our data show that the quantity of the intervocalic consonant in an Italian loanword depends on its written representation in English, the source language. Thus only English intervocalic consonants that are written with two identical letters (for example, as in splatter) are borrowed as geminates. We provide a formalization of these orthographic adaptations with grapheme-to-phoneme mappings in the shape of Optimality-theoretic constraints that model the native reading process, and show how the output of these mappings is restricted by native phonotactic constraints. Furthermore, we illustrate that the native reading grammar proposed here complements the perceptual adaptation model by Boersma and Hamann (2009). This combined model is shown to be able to account for simultaneous orthographic and perceptual borrowings in Italian, as well as to hold for reading and perception outside the realm of loanword adaptation.

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Orthographic Traces in Romanian and Japanese Loanwords: Enriching Phonological Representations

Mathieu

2012

J Lang Contact

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This paper presents a formal account of the influence of orthography in the adaptation of Romanian loanwords from French and Japanese loanwords from English. It agues that, in the course of adaptation, the accompanying presence of a written representation does play a part in shaping the phonological content of borrowed words. To explain such orthographic manifestations in loanwords, a grammatical mechanism is devised in which underlying input representations are composed of linguistic information emanating from both the native perceptual system and the grapheme-phoneme mapping procedure. Cast in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993/2004), the bulk of the analysis rests in determining how the grammar evaluates output forms resulting from such amalgamated inputs. Theoretical implications of such a proposal are also discussed, in particular as it concerns the nature of input coding and representation. In short, phonological representations are assumed to embrace the segmental richness imparted by both speech and print.

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Gemination in English loans in American varieties of Italian

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

When Unnecessary Repairs Become Necessary: The Case of Nasal Insertion in Standard Mandarin Loanwords

When Unnecessary Repairs Become Necessary: The Case of Nasal Insertion in Standard Mandarin Loanwords

A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

Orthographic Traces in Romanian and Japanese Loanwords: Enriching Phonological Representations

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