Polish Consonant Clusters in the British Mouth: A Study in Online Loanword Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9783631770443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Marek Radomski

Opis

The book focuses on online adaptation of Polish initial and final CC and CCC clusters by native speakers of British English. It offers an Optimality Theory analysis of a rich body of experimental data. The author provides evidence for the phonological approach to loan adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon.

Spis treści

Linguistic borrowing - Phonological loanword adaptation - Major theoretical approaches to phonological loanword adaptation - Consonant clusters in English and Polish - A sonority-based and optimality theoretic perspective - Adaptation of Polish CC and CCC consonant clusters by native speakers of English.

O autorze

Marek Radomski is an Assistant Professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, where he teaches courses in phonetics and phonology. He has published on loanword phonology, Optimality Theory and foreign accent perception