Publications

Publication details [#58779]

Lev-Ari, Shiri, Marcela San Giacomo and Sharon Peperkamp. 2014. The effect of domain prestige and interlocutors' bilingualism on loanword adaptations. Journal of Sociolinguistics 18 (5) : 658–684.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

This study of elicited loanword production from Spanish into Mexicano demonstrates that donor language status in the loanword's field and interlocutor adjustment, irrespective of bilingualism level- affect sound adaptation extent (and potential change).