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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 ISBN 1-57473-410-5 library binding v + 283 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Michael Kenstowicz Tone Loans: The Adaptation of English Loanwords into Yoruba 136-146 (complete pdf) 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. |