The Perceptual Origin of Added Glottals in Spanish Loans in Modern Nahuan

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1086/727524
Hugo Salgado, Justin Pinta
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Spanish vowel-final loans are consistently adopted in modern Nahuan languages with an added glottal phoneme: Spanish mesa > Nahuan mesah ‘table’. This adaptation is puzzling because there is no obvious aspect of the phonological or morphological grammar of Nahuan that motivates it. We present evidence that, due to the weakened voicing of Spanish utterance-final vowels, Nahuan speakers perceive Spanish vowel-final words in utterance-final position as ending in the Nahuan glottal phoneme and adopt the word with it. Our proposal bears on the growing body of literature showing that first- and second-language learners are more sensitive to the phonetic characteristics of sounds when they occur in utterance-final position, likely because of their increased length or the fact that they are not masked by following sounds. Consequently, we suggest that the position of source forms within the utterance can affect loanword adaptation.
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现代纳桓语西班牙语借词中附加喉音的感知起源
在现代纳桓语中,西班牙文元音韵尾借位一直被采用,并增加了喉音:西班牙语 mesa > 纳胡安语 mesah "桌子"。这种改编令人费解,因为纳胡安语的语音或形态语法中并没有明显的动机。我们提出的证据表明,由于西班牙语语尾元音的发声减弱,纳胡安语使用者会将语尾位置的西班牙语元音词尾视为以纳胡安喉音结束的词,并采用该词。越来越多的文献表明,第一语言和第二语言学习者对出现在语尾位置的声音的语音特征更为敏感,这可能是因为这些声音的长度增加了,或者它们没有被后面的声音所掩盖。因此,我们认为源语形式在语篇中的位置会影响借词适应。
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期刊介绍: International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America. Inaugurated by Franz Boas in 1917, IJAL concentrates on the investigation of linguistic data and on the presentation of grammatical fragments and other documents relevant to Amerindian languages.
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