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Publication details [#57807]

Cohen, Evan-Gary. 2013. The emergence of the unmarked: Vowel harmony in Hebrew loanword adaptation. Lingua 131 : 66–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | grammar1 | lexicon | loanword | vowel

Language as a subject

Hebrew, Modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article claims that adult speakers of all languages are generally inclined to employ vowel harmony, even in perceived non-vowel harmony languages, such as Modern Hebrew, where the harmony then may appear in the lexicon's periphery (e.g. loanwords).