16 Loanword phonology in Romance
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Elissa Pustka
Abstract
This chapter gives an overview of the internal and external factors determining loanword phonology and discusses open questions in current theoretical research on the basis of selected examples from French, Italian, and Spanish in contact with mainly English and Latin. It presents the outcomes, in the vowel domain, of French nasal and front rounded vowels, in the consonant domain, of English /ŋ/ and French /ʒ/, and in the syllable domain of initial sibilant-plosive clusters and final consonants from Latin and English, as well as /tɬ/ from Nahuatl in (Mexican) Spanish. These cases show that spelling pronunciation plays a particularly important role in Romance languages and that English and Latin loanwords are imitated in French and adapted in Spanish, while Italian presents an intermediate case. This can be explained by the more or less transparent grapheme-phoneme correspondences in the respective languages.
Abstract
This chapter gives an overview of the internal and external factors determining loanword phonology and discusses open questions in current theoretical research on the basis of selected examples from French, Italian, and Spanish in contact with mainly English and Latin. It presents the outcomes, in the vowel domain, of French nasal and front rounded vowels, in the consonant domain, of English /ŋ/ and French /ʒ/, and in the syllable domain of initial sibilant-plosive clusters and final consonants from Latin and English, as well as /tɬ/ from Nahuatl in (Mexican) Spanish. These cases show that spelling pronunciation plays a particularly important role in Romance languages and that English and Latin loanwords are imitated in French and adapted in Spanish, while Italian presents an intermediate case. This can be explained by the more or less transparent grapheme-phoneme correspondences in the respective languages.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of contents IX
- List of abbreviations XIII
- Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction 1
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I. Key topics in Romance phonology
- 1 Length and weight in Romance 31
- 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification 89
- 3 Processes affecting vowels 127
- 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa 150
- 5 Palatalization in Romance 173
- 6 Nasals and nasalization 215
- 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French 242
- 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages 264
- 9 Intonation 299
- 10 Corpus phonology 319
- 11 Sociophonetics 342
- 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology 375
- 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition 407
- 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology 435
- 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties 462
- 16 Loanword phonology in Romance 503
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II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages
- 17 Romanian 531
- 18 Italian 559
- 19 Sardinian 597
- 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh 628
- 21 French 669
- 22 Occitan 709
- 23 Catalan 743
- 24 Spanish 779
- 25 Judeo-Spanish 808
- 26 Portuguese 839
- 27 Galician 882
- 28 Romance-lexifier creoles 929
- List of contributors 955
- Index 957
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Acknowledgments VII
- Table of contents IX
- List of abbreviations XIII
- Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction 1
-
I. Key topics in Romance phonology
- 1 Length and weight in Romance 31
- 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification 89
- 3 Processes affecting vowels 127
- 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa 150
- 5 Palatalization in Romance 173
- 6 Nasals and nasalization 215
- 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French 242
- 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages 264
- 9 Intonation 299
- 10 Corpus phonology 319
- 11 Sociophonetics 342
- 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology 375
- 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition 407
- 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology 435
- 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties 462
- 16 Loanword phonology in Romance 503
-
II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages
- 17 Romanian 531
- 18 Italian 559
- 19 Sardinian 597
- 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh 628
- 21 French 669
- 22 Occitan 709
- 23 Catalan 743
- 24 Spanish 779
- 25 Judeo-Spanish 808
- 26 Portuguese 839
- 27 Galician 882
- 28 Romance-lexifier creoles 929
- List of contributors 955
- Index 957
