Michael L. Friesner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael L. Friesner plays a role.

Articles

Friesner, Michael L. 2010 Loanword adaptation in the French of Spanish-speaking immigrants in MontréalRomance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 39–54 | Article
This paper examines the adaptation of rhotics in loanwords in French by Hispanophone and Francophone Montrealers, in order to investigate the linguistic integration of immigrant communities and the mutual influence of native and nonnative speakers on the outcome of borrowing. Multivariate analysis… read more
Friesner, Michael L. 2009 The adaptation of Romanian loanwords from Turkish and FrenchLoan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 115–130 | Article
This paper examines several factors affecting loanword adaptation, using a data set of Romanian loanwords from Turkish and French. After exploring the position of loanwords in the lexicon and the nature of the two contact situations, the author considers relevant social, morphological, and… read more