Paper 1304
Tone Loans: The Adaptation of English Loanwords into Yoruba
Michael Kenstowicz
136-146 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
This paper reviews the major adaptation strategies employed in the assignment of tones to loanwords adapted from English into Yoruba. Special attention is drawn to the behavior of epenthetic vowels. The Yoruba adaptations are briefly compared with those found in English loans into Hausa and Shona.
Published in
Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives
edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman
Table of contents
Paper 1304
Tone Loans: The Adaptation of English Loanwords into Yoruba
Michael Kenstowicz
136-146 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Michael Kenstowicz
136-146 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
This paper reviews the major adaptation strategies employed in the assignment of tones to loanwords adapted from English into Yoruba. Special attention is drawn to the behavior of epenthetic vowels. The Yoruba adaptations are briefly compared with those found in English loans into Hausa and Shona.
Published in
Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives
edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman
Table of contents
edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman
Table of contents