An OT Approach to Loanword Adaptation in Cairene Arabic
Cairene Arabic (CA) elects epenthesis as a strategy for adapting loanwords. This paper tackles the reasons why this occurs as well as the different aspects of vowel epenthesis within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT)(McCarthy and Prince, 1993;Prince and Smolensky, 1993) and the relevant litera...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1241 |