Loan Phonology and the Two Transfer Types in Language Contact

Coetsem, Frans van

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“…Thus a bilingual English-Dutch speaker stores carpenter close to its Dutch equivalent timmerman in the mental lexicon, because of the semantic similarity, and the English word wait (Dutch 'wacht') close to the Dutch word weet 'know' because of the similarity in form, also referred to as formal similarity. Independent research in language acquisition points to the same conclusion: crosslinguistic influence of one word form upon a similar one has been shown to occur in the language acquisition of bilinguals (Hulk and Müller 2000), in the formation of creole languages (King 2000) and in language contact theory (Van Coetsem 1988; Thomason and Kaufman 1988).…”

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Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: Words in the bilingual brain

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Hoekstra

2016

Linguistics

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Bilingual speakers store cognates from related languages close together in their mental lexicon. In the case of minority languages, words from the dominant language often exert influence on their cognates in the minority language. In this article, we present a model describing that influence or force of attraction as a function of frequency and of (dis)similarity (representational distance). More specifically, it is claimed that the strength of the force of attraction of one word upon another is (among others) a function of their frequencies divided by their formal dissimilarity. The model is applied to the distribution of nouns derived from adjectives in Frisian, where the suffix -ens competes with -heid. Of these two suffixes, Frisian -heid is similar to Dutch -heid, whereas Frisian -ens does not have a similar counterpart in Dutch. The model predicts that Frisian derived nouns of which the adjectival bases are similar in form and meaning to Dutch will occur more often with -heid and less often with -ens. It also predicts that this effect will be stronger as the words involved are more frequent. Our findings make it possible to verify the model's quantification of the influence of Dutch words on their cognates.

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Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: Words in the bilingual brain

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“…Children acquiring Arabic as an L1 will then, in turn, also make this reanalysis, encouraged to do so for their part by the fact that now at least part of their primary linguistic data will contain the innovative construction, if they are exposed to the L2 Arabic of the (majority) Coptic-speaking population. The origin of Jespersen's Cycle in Arabic thus lies in imposition, in the sense of Van Coetsem (1988, 2000, of the bipartite negative construction by native speakers of Coptic.…”

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Incipient Jespersen’s Cycle: The (non-)grammaticalization of new negative markers

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Lucas²,

Willis³

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“…However, this still does not fully explain precisely how the properties of substrate lexical items get transferred to superstrate lexemes. To account for this, we appeal to van Coetsem's (1988Coetsem's ( , 2000 notion of imposition -a mechanism in which various properties of a linguistically dominant source language (SL) are transferred to a recipient language (RL) in which the speaker is less dominant, i.e. proficient.…”

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Fact-type complements in Gbe and the Surinamese Creoles

Migge

Winford

2013

Lingua

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Publication informationLingua, 129 (May 2013): 9-31 Publisher ElsevierItem record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5837Publisher's statement þÿ T h i s i s t h e a u t h o r s v e r s i o n o f a w o r k t h a t w a s a c c e p t e d f o r p u b l i c a t i o n i n L i n g u a . C h a n g e s resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document.Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Lingua (VOL 129, ISSUE 2013, (2013 Creoles is modeled on that of their main input languages, the Gbe languages, we still lack precise information on the extent of the similarities and differences. In this paper we provide a broad comparison of fact-type complementation in these two language groups and suggest an explanation for the similarities we find. We explore the syntax and semantics of the complementizers used in both language groups, the kinds of complement-taking predicator (CTP) that select these complements and their syntax and semantics. The analysis reveals close structural and functional similarities between the two language groups suggesting that fact-type complementation in the Surinamese Creoles was largely modeled on that of Gbe.

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Loan Phonology and the Two Transfer Types in Language Contact

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Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: Words in the bilingual brain

Attraction between words as a function of frequency and representational distance: Words in the bilingual brain

Incipient Jespersen’s Cycle: The (non-)grammaticalization of new negative markers

Fact-type complements in Gbe and the Surinamese Creoles

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