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- The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
- The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Front Rounded Vowels of Heritage Korean in Northern China
- 2 Phonetic Influence from the Minority Language
- 3 Phonological Transfer in Heritage Japanese in Australia
- 4 Phrasal Prosody of Heritage Speakers of Samoan in Aotearoa New Zealand
- 5 Stress Placement in English Loanwords by Speakers of Mirpur Pahari in the UK
- 6 Intergenerational Transmission of Laterals in Punjabi–English Heritage Bilinguals
- 7 Perception and Production of Phonemic Contrasts in Heritage Russian and Polish in Germany
- 8 Focus Realization in Heritage Spanish
- 9 Language-Specific Phonology of Heritage Perception
- 10 An Individual-Differences Perspective on Variation in Heritage Mandarin Speakers
- 11 Childhood Language Exposure
- 12 The Intonation of Declaratives and Polar Questions in Modern versus Heritage Icelandic
- 13 Functional Load and Vowel Merger in Toronto Heritage Cantonese
- 14 Have Cantonese Tones Merged in Spontaneous Speech?
- 15 Phonetics of Stop Voicing in Heritage and Homeland Polish
- 16 Perception and Production of English and Portuguese Voiceless Stops by Heritage Learners
- 17 Prosodically Conditioned Variation
- Index
- References
5 - Stress Placement in English Loanwords by Speakers of Mirpur Pahari in the UK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2024
- The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
- The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Front Rounded Vowels of Heritage Korean in Northern China
- 2 Phonetic Influence from the Minority Language
- 3 Phonological Transfer in Heritage Japanese in Australia
- 4 Phrasal Prosody of Heritage Speakers of Samoan in Aotearoa New Zealand
- 5 Stress Placement in English Loanwords by Speakers of Mirpur Pahari in the UK
- 6 Intergenerational Transmission of Laterals in Punjabi–English Heritage Bilinguals
- 7 Perception and Production of Phonemic Contrasts in Heritage Russian and Polish in Germany
- 8 Focus Realization in Heritage Spanish
- 9 Language-Specific Phonology of Heritage Perception
- 10 An Individual-Differences Perspective on Variation in Heritage Mandarin Speakers
- 11 Childhood Language Exposure
- 12 The Intonation of Declaratives and Polar Questions in Modern versus Heritage Icelandic
- 13 Functional Load and Vowel Merger in Toronto Heritage Cantonese
- 14 Have Cantonese Tones Merged in Spontaneous Speech?
- 15 Phonetics of Stop Voicing in Heritage and Homeland Polish
- 16 Perception and Production of English and Portuguese Voiceless Stops by Heritage Learners
- 17 Prosodically Conditioned Variation
- Index
- References
Summary
Stress placement in English loanwords into Mirpur Pahari (MP) is used to explore whether a usage-based approach can inform the incorporation of external factors (e.g., exposure to a donor language; here, English) into formal phonological analysis of loanword adaptation alongside internal factors (e.g., phonology of the recipient language; here, MP). Stress placement in English loanwords into MP shows across- and within-speaker variation between conformity to MP stress rules (formalized in classical Optimality Theory; OT) and retention of stress on the syllable that is stressed in English; this is a challenge for most theories of loanword adaptation. In our hybrid approach, variable adaptation patterns in individual speakers’ loanword realizations in production data from twelve MP speakers in the UK are correlated with degree of exposure to English, operationalized as vocabulary size, and a unified formal account is sketched through usage-based weighting of constraints in Stochastic OT.
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- The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages , pp. 107 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024