Investigating a bias for cue preservation in loanword adaptation
Investigating a bias for cue preservation in loanword adaptation
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DOI:
10.1121/10.0001375
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发表时间:
2020-06-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Baese-Berk, Melissa M.
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作者:
Jaggers, Zachary;Baese-Berk, Melissa M.
Loanword adaptation exhibits a bias favoring sound cue preservation, possibly due to a conservative caution against deleting cues of unsure expendability in a foreign language. This study tests whether listeners are biased to preserve an acoustically ambiguous sound cue in a nonce word framed as originating from a foreign language. Results show the opposite: Listeners are less likely to transcribe an ambiguous sound cue as a phonological segment when the word containing it is framed as a loanword. However, listeners who identify as more open and accommodating to foreign people and languages show relatively more preservation in the loanword condition. (C) 2020 Acoustical Society of America