2014•Unpublished venueRequires access

The Role of Acoustic Cues in NonnativeCluster Repairs

Suyeon Yun

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In loanword adaptation, when a consonant cluster in a source language is phonotactically illegal in the borrowing language, phonological repairs may take place. The most frequent repair is vowel epenthesis; for example, Russian tkanj ‘fabric ’ is adapted as [tikan] in Ewen (Choi, 2010), with an inserted vowel between the two stops. The next most frequent repair is deleting one of the consonants in

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Key concepts: Sonority hierarchy, Consonant cluster, Vowel, Linguistics, Phonotactics, Speech recognition, Computer science, Consonant