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Phonological Adaptations Of English Loanwords In Turkish, Rachel Beel, Jennifer Felder
Phonological Adaptations Of English Loanwords In Turkish, Rachel Beel, Jennifer Felder
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When trying to understand the phonological system of a language (the sounds used in speech), what are some of the ways to figure out the patterns of an unfamiliar language? The way that borrowed or loanwords (words taken from one language and used in another) are pronounced in a language reveals much about the language’s phonology. The phonological system of Turkish has accommodated for starkly different syllable structures when incorporating modern English words into this contrasting language.
A personal survey of Turkish syllable structure has revealed how native speakers of Turkish cope with the phonological features of borrowed English words …