Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A
leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English …

Standard phonological accounts of loanword adaptations state that the inputs to the
adaptations are constituted by the surface forms of the words in the source language and …

In this article, we argue that loanword adaptation is overwhelmingly phonological and that
phonetic approximation plays a limited role in the sound changes that loanwords undergo …

When words are borrowed from one language to another, they undergo transformation to
conform to the borrowing language's sound patterns. In this sense, loanword adaptation is …

Phonologists have long held an interest in loanword adaptations, that is in the
transformations that apply to words when they are borrowed into a foreign language …

Japanese shows an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in loanwords from English
and French: while it is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is …

In this paper we review the results of a study of an 800-word corpus of loanwords from
English into Thai and consider their relevance for models of loanword adaptation. The …