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The present volume is a collection of 14 papers written by several
international scholars who examine a variety of descriptive and
theoretical issues topical in current phonetic and phonological
research. This is done through a meticulous analysis of a rich body
of data, often obtained experimentally, taken from such languages
as Gothic, Sanskrit, Old Chinese, Malaylam, Japanese, Polish,
Hungarian, English and Portuguese as well as through theoretical
considerations which carry broader implications for the study of
sound systems.
The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical
contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology,
its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an
in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on
online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent in English,
by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched
within the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for
the phonological approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the
core-periphery structure of the English lexicon and shows that the
proposed perspective allows for a deep insight into the nature of
the collected language data.
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