The Phonetic and Morphological Integration of Loanwords: A Study of the Vocabulary of Baseball In Dominican Spanish

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2388
Title	The Phonetic and Morphological Integration of Loanwords: A Study of the Vocabulary of Baseball In Dominican Spanish
BYU Creator	Alba, Orlando
Keywords	Phonetic adaptation; anglicism; baseball; caique; dominican Spanish; loanwords; lexical borrowing
Description/Abstract	This article examines the processes of phonetic adaptation and morphological integration affecting baseball terms imported from English into Dominican Spanish. The data are taken from three sources: television and radio broadcasts; a word association test designed to elicit speakers' available lexicon in this semantic field; a questionnaire administered under controlled conditions. Analysis of the data indicates that the importation of new lexical items from English does not represent a threat for Spanish since the Spanish linguistic system has the ability to assimilate and integrate such items by adapting them to its own structures. In this sense, the arrival of loanwords may be viewed as a natural phenomenon that enables the language to expand and enrich its lexis without disrupting its phonological and morphological structures in the process.
Source	RLA, Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, 45 (2), II Sem. 2007, pp. 89-109
Date Original	2007
Language	Spanish spa es
Publication Type	Articles
Type	Text
Format	application/html
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Humanities
BYU Department	Spanish and Portuguese
Copyright Status	(c) 2010 Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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