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Marking the Foreign Word – A Case Study of Recent English Loans in Hungarian Cover

Marking the Foreign Word – A Case Study of Recent English Loans in Hungarian

Open Access
|Feb 2018

Abstract

The work examines the most recent English borrowings in Hungarian, and it focuses on their morphophonological integration. By analysing the re-adjustment (if any) that they undergo in order to fit in the phonotactic requirements of Hungarian, it is revealed that the language employs a specific adaptation strategy. The aim is to show that by not obeying certain phonological laws in the process of perception and adapting the newly arrived loanwords, in fact, Hungarian demonstrates a tendency to mark these lexical items as foreign.

Language: English, German
Page range: 53 - 60
Published on: Feb 16, 2018
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2018 Ina Vishogradska, published by Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.