Nantes 2004 proceedings paper

• mémoire
• dissertation

In: Actes des Journées d'Etudes Linguistiques, 2004, pp. 129-131. Evidence for phonetic adaptation of loanwords: an experimental study Inga Vendelin & Sharon Peperkamp Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-ENS-CNRS & Université de Paris 8 , 1 Abstract Japanese loanword adaptations show an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in words from French and English, respectively: while word-final [n] is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is adapted as a geminate nasal followed by an epenthetic

• cvn
• native words
• epenthetic vowel at the end of cvn-items
• epenthetic vowel
• phonetic factors
• perceptual assimilation
• lexical contrast
• loanword adaptation
• phonology
• perception