Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints
This paper focuses on the ways in which English loanwords are brought into line with four phonotactic constraints that restrict the possible combinations of nuclear vowels and coda consonants in Cantonese Chinese. It is found that three of the four constraints are strictly enforced in loans. Repairs...
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| description | This paper focuses on the ways in which English loanwords are brought into line with four phonotactic constraints that restrict the possible combinations of nuclear vowels and coda consonants in Cantonese Chinese. It is found that three of the four constraints are strictly enforced in loans. Repairs change either the vowel or the coda consonant. Parallel to Mandarin, changes in vowel height features ([high], [ATR]) as opposed to changes in vowel backness are employed. Coda consonant changes obey a dorsal > coronal > labial faithfulness hierarchy that mirrors the typology of coda mergers discovered by Chen (1973) for many Chinese dialects. While changes in both the vowel and coda consonant occur, on-line adaptations favor changing the coda and preserving the vowel and suggest that the relative phonetic salience of the nuclear vowel to the coda consonant still plays a role in these adaptations. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1107412022-09-30T21:24:46Z Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints Kenstowicz, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Kenstowicz, Michael This paper focuses on the ways in which English loanwords are brought into line with four phonotactic constraints that restrict the possible combinations of nuclear vowels and coda consonants in Cantonese Chinese. It is found that three of the four constraints are strictly enforced in loans. Repairs change either the vowel or the coda consonant. Parallel to Mandarin, changes in vowel height features ([high], [ATR]) as opposed to changes in vowel backness are employed. Coda consonant changes obey a dorsal > coronal > labial faithfulness hierarchy that mirrors the typology of coda mergers discovered by Chen (1973) for many Chinese dialects. While changes in both the vowel and coda consonant occur, on-line adaptations favor changing the coda and preserving the vowel and suggest that the relative phonetic salience of the nuclear vowel to the coda consonant still plays a role in these adaptations. 2017-07-17T19:06:08Z 2017-07-17T19:06:08Z 2012 2011-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2014-9719 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110741 Kenstowicz, Michael J. "Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints." Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 11 (2012): 65-96. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6490-1420 en_US http://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v11-kenstowicz/pdf Catalan Journal of Linguistics Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ application/pdf Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Catalan Journal of Linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Kenstowicz, Michael Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title | Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title_full | Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title_fullStr | Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title_short | Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints |
| title_sort | cantonese loanwords conflicting faithfulness in vc rime constraints |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110741 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6490-1420 |
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