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

250 Pages·2019·2.566 MB·English

by  Marek Radomski

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Sounds – Meaning – Communication 7 7 Sounds – Meaning – Communication 7
i
k
s
m
o
d
a
R
k
Marek Radomski e Marek Radomski
r
a
M
Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth
Polish consonant clusters
h
The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the t
u
ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and o
various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel m in the British mouth
experimental data on online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent h
in English, by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched within s
i
the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for the phonological it
approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of Br A study in online loanword adaptation
the English lexicon and shows that the proposed perspective allows for a deep e
h
insight into the nature of the collected language data.
t
n
i
s
r
e
The Author st
Marek Radomski is an Assistant Professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University u
l
in Lublin, Poland, where he teaches courses in phonetics and phonology. He c
t
has published on loanword phonology, Optimality Theory and foreign accent n
a
perception.
n
o
s
n
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h
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Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth
SOUNDS – MEANING – COMMUNICATION
LANDMARKS IN PHONETICS, PHONOLOGY
AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Edited by Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Editorial Board:
Eugeniusz Cyran (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Adam Głaz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Haike Jacobs (Radboud University (Nijmegen), The Netherlands)
Henryk Kardela (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Przemysław Łozowski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Bert Peeters (Australian National University (Canberra) and Griffith University
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VOLUME 7

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Marek Radomski

Polish consonant clusters in the
British mouth
A study in online loanword adaptation
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Title: Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth : a study in online
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meaning - communication: Landmarks in phonetics, phonology and cognitive
linguistics ; Vol. 7 | Includes bibliographical references.
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Subjects: LCSH: English language--Foreign words and phrases--Polish. |
English language--Foreign elements--Polish. | Optimality theory
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Reviewed by Prof. Haike Jacobs.
Cover illustration printed with kind permission of Jerzy Durczak.
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I would also like to extend my thanks to Prof. Haike Jacobs and Prof. Geoffrey
Description: Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019] | Series: Sounds -
meaning - communication: Landmarks in phonetics, phonology and cognitive Schwartz, who reviewed the manuscript, for their insightful comments and criti-
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Subjects: LCSH: English language--Foreign words and phrases--Polish. |
English language--Foreign elements--Polish. | Optimality theory ogy Unit at the Institute of English Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
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This publication was financially supported by tance with the collection of my data: Prof. Pauline Foster, Dr Joanna Przedlacka,
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Prof. Jane Setter and Mr Jan Trębacz.
Reviewed by Prof. Haike Jacobs. Last but not least, I wish to thank my wife, Marzena, for her unwavering sup-
port and endless patience, and my daughters, Hanna and Karolina.
Cover illustration printed with kind permission of Jerzy Durczak.
Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck.
ISSN 2365-8150
ISBN 978-3-631-77044-3 (Print)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-77225-6 (E-PDF)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-77226-3 (EPUB)
E-ISBN 978-3-631-77227-0 (MOBI)
DOI 10.3726/b14998
© Peter Lang GmbH
Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Berlin 2019
All rights reserved.
Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙
Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien
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Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................1
1 Introduction to linguistic borrowing and phonological
loanword adaptation ........................................................................................5
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................5
2 Definition and classification of borrowings ....................................................6
3 Controversial issues in phonological loanword adaptation ........................12
3.1 The nature of the input representation .....................................................12
3.2 The channel of borrowing and the influence of spelling ........................15
3.3 The degree of community bilingualism ....................................................18
3.4 Problematic patterns in phonological loanword adaptation .................20
3.4.1 The too-many-solutions problem ...................................................20
3.4.2 Divergent repair ................................................................................22
3.4.3 Unnecessary repair ...........................................................................23
3.4.4 Differential importation ...................................................................24
3.4.5 Retreat to the unmarked ..................................................................26
4 History of borrowings into English ................................................................28
4.1 Old English (450–1100) ..............................................................................28
4.2 Middle English (1100–1500) ......................................................................32
4.3 Early Modern English (1500–1800) ..........................................................37
4.4 Present-Day English (since 1800) .............................................................40
4.5 Polish loanwords in English .......................................................................43
5 Conclusions .......................................................................................................44
2 Major theoretical approaches to phonological loanword
adaptation ...........................................................................................................47
1 Introduction ......................................................................................................47
2 The phonological approximation view ..........................................................48
2.1 Theory of Constraints and Repair Strategies Loanword Model ............48
VII
2.2 Itô and Mester’s (1995, 1999, 2001) Optimality Theory account
of lexical stratification in Japanese ............................................................54
3 The phonetic approximation view ..................................................................59
3.1 The psycholinguistic three-level model of speech processing ...............59
3.2 The bidirectional three-level model for L1 processing and
loanword adaptation ...................................................................................63
4 The phonetic-phonological approximation view..........................................67
4.1 Silverman’s (1992) two-tier model of loanword adaptation ...................67
4.2 Perceptual similarity approach ..................................................................73
5 Conclusions .......................................................................................................78
3 Consonant clusters in English and Polish. A sonority-based
and optimality theoretic perspective......................................................81
1 Introduction ......................................................................................................81
2 CC and CCC consonant clusters in English ..................................................82
3 CC and CCC consonant clusters in Polish ....................................................86
4 The concept of sonority and cross-linguistic sonority-based
generalisations ...................................................................................................91
4.1 Phonetic correlates of sonority ..................................................................91
4.2 Sonority scales .............................................................................................92
4.3 Sonority Sequencing Principle ..................................................................93
4.4 Minimum Sonority Distance .....................................................................94
4.5 Syllable Contact Law ...................................................................................95
4.6 Sonority Dispersion Principle....................................................................96
5 Sonority-based comparison of English and Polish CC and CCC
consonant clusters .............................................................................................97
6 Other approaches to sonority .......................................................................100
6.1 Sonority in Government Phonology.......................................................100
6.2 Sonority in Onset Prominence Phonology ............................................101
6.3 Sonority in Beats-and-Binding Phonology ............................................103
7 Sonority and syllable structure in Optimality Theory ..............................104
7.1 Basic assumptions of Optimality Theory ...............................................104
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