The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017.
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| author | Magyar, Lilla |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1137812019-04-12T23:13:57Z The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ Magyar, Lilla Adam Albright. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Linguistics and Philosophy. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202). Loan gemination is a cross-linguistically widespread phenomenon: short consonants preceded by short stressed vowels in the source language are borrowed as long in loanwords. It is generally considered to be an 'unnecessary' adaptation (Peperkamp, 2005), because it does not repair any illegal sequences in the native phonotactics of the borrowing languages. Hungarian is a particularly interesting case of a seemingly unnecessary adaptation: in the native phonology, both singletons and geminates can be found in word-final and intervocalic position (where loan gemination could potentially apply), therefore - on the face of it - there is nothing in the native phonotactics that would require gemination (Nddasdy, 1989). In this thesis, I present a detailed case study of Hungarian loan gemination and argue that this process is heavily influenced by native phonotactics (i.e. geminate markedness which is also reflected in the distribution of geminates in the native phonology), perceptual similarity effects (faithfulness to source vowel duration), and orthography. I propose a MaxEnt model with weighted constraints which incorporates these factors and predicts the probability of productive loan gemination. by Lilla Magyar. Ph. D. 2018-02-16T20:05:33Z 2018-02-16T20:05:33Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113781 1022566200 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 202 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics and Philosophy. Magyar, Lilla The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title | The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title_full | The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title_fullStr | The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title_short | The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ |
| title_sort | role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well formedness in loan gemination processes |
| topic | Linguistics and Philosophy. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113781 |
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