Recent English loanwords in Irish and the interchange of initial segments

The aim of the present paper is to show that evidence from the alteration of initial segments in Irish sheds some light on a modern phenomenon whereby recent loanwords from English resist mutations. We begin the discussion with the presentation of the mechanism of word-initial mutations and show how...

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Main Author: Magdalena Chudak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2010-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/recent_english_loanwords_in_irish_and_the_interchange_of_initial_segments