The Phonotactic Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic

Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H.

doi:10.24093/awej/vol8no3.25

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“…First, earlier studies that focused on segmental changes in lexical borrowings and the associated phonological processes during adaption, such as sound change and substitution (Heath, 1989;Araj, 1993;Hafez, 1996;Al-Saqqa, 2001). Second, recent studies that have been concerned with supra-segmental phonology, such as gemination, stress and prosodic structures in phonological adaptation of loanwords (Jarrah 2013;Davis and Ragheb, 2014;Guba 2016;Al-Athwary, 2017). The current study is different from previous studies on Arabic loanword phonology in two aspects.…”

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Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

Alahmari¹

2022

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This paper investigates vowel adaptation in English-based loanwords by a group of Saudi Arabic speakers, concentrating exclusively on shared vowels between the two languages. It examines 5 long vowels shared by the two vowel systems in terms of vowel quality and vowel duration in loanword productions by 22 participants and checks them against the properties of the same vowels in native words. To this end, the study performs an acoustic analysis of 660 tokens (loan and native vowel sounds) through Praat to measure the first two formants (F1: vowel height and F2: vowel advancement) of each vowel sound at two temporal points of time (T1: the vowel onset and T2: the peak of the vowel) as well as a durational analysis to examine vowel length. It reports that measurements of the first two formants of vowels in native words appear to be stable during the two temporal points while values of the same vowel sounds occurring in loanwords are fluctuating from T1 to T2 and that durational differences exist between loanword vowels in comparison with vowels of native words in such a way that vowels in native words are longer in duration than the same vowels appearing in loanwords.

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Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

Alahmari¹

2022

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Phonological parsing via an integrated I-language

Archibald

2022

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Schwartz and Sprouse (2021) argue against property-by-property Transfer (Westergaard, 2021a, b) and for wholesale transfer (Rothman, 2015) into a third language grammar by questioning the cognitive plausibility of “extracting a proper subpart from the … grammar and using that proper sub-system as the basis for a new cognitive state.” I will argue that the insights from the approaches of López (2020); Lightfoot (2020); Dresher (2018), and Westergaard (2021a) when applied to empirical data from L3 English data from L1 Arabic/L2 French speakers, give us reason to question Schwartz and Sprouse’s defence of wholesale transfer, and its typological underpinnings. We can set the study of L3A in a larger context which can unify domains such as the acquisition of phonology and syntax via a unified approach to parsing. By invoking an underspecified, minimal UG, primary linguistic data, and domain-general third factors which act in concert to parse the E-language to select structures, we can capture the underlying similarity of first, second, and third language acquisition. Parsing proceeds in an error-driven fashion, structure by structure, drawing on the Integrated I-language and UG options found in a Repository. In essence, this approach renders the wholesale/property-by-property distinction a false dichotomy.

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Consonant Changes in Loanwords Borrowed from Indonesian into Dialects of Acehnese

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Amery²,

Mustafa³

2022

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Acehnese, like other regional languages throughout Indonesia, is in constant and intense contact with the Indonesian standard language, bahasa Indonesia. Not surprisingly, a great many Indonesian loanwords are flooding into Acehnese. Some interesting sound changes have affected various aspects pf the consonants, vowels, phonotactics, and stress, and so forth. The sound changes affecting the vowels and, to a lesser extent, the consonants of Indonesian loanwords, appear in most unusual ways. This paper explores this topic in detail, drawing on data from a range of sources. We compiled a list of 285 loanwords, which we recorded when read by native speakers of each of four main Acehnese dialects. The Acehnese language consultants to this study were all either academics or postgraduate students in Aceh, and hence fluent bilingual speakers of both Acehnese and Indonesian. We compared phonemic transcriptions of these recordings with their Indonesian correspondences. This paper is the second such paper emerging from this investigation, where the first focused on the behaviour of the vowels. As such, this paper concerns the behaviour of the consonants in Indonesian loanwords migrating into Acehnese dialects. The study evidences the fact that consonant changes do not always constitute a simple case of phonological assimilation, as usually occurs in loanword phonology. Consequently, some consonant changes during the migration of loanwords expose the phenomenon of loanwords becoming an expression of Acehnese identity.

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The Phonotactic Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic

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Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

Phonological parsing via an integrated I-language

Consonant Changes in Loanwords Borrowed from Indonesian into Dialects of Acehnese

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