<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In current linguistics, as well as in the fields of contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, the assessment of contact between the different languages used by speakers living in the same geographical/political area receives a pronounced role. These languages inevitably come into contact. The research on language contact between Hungarian and Romanian has a past marked by scholarly works that focus especially on the lexical- semantic level. Because contact between linguistic phenomena occurs at every level of language, it is necessary to focus on the smallest linguistic elements as well. In our work, we analyse a corpus of words borrowed from Hungarian by the Romanian language, focusing on stop sounds. In our paper, we establish the main phonetic transfer modalities, discussing the subject in an international framework.</p></abstract>

In current linguistics, as well as in the fields of contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, the assessment of contact between the different languages used by speakers living in the same geographical/political area receives a pronounced role. These languages inevitably come into contact. The research on language contact between Hungarian and Romanian has a past marked by scholarly works that focus especially on the lexical- semantic level. Because contact between linguistic phenomena occurs at every level of language, it is necessary to focus on the smallest linguistic elements as well. In our work, we analyse a corpus of words borrowed from Hungarian by the Romanian language, focusing on stop sounds. In our paper, we establish the main phonetic transfer modalities, discussing the subject in an international framework.

Phonetic Adaptation of Hungarian Loanwords in Romanian

MA-candidate. Hungarian and General Linguistics Department Faculty of Letters Babe§-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The Adaptation of Stop Sounds (Occlusive Plosives)

In current linguistics, as well as in the fields of contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, the assessment of contact between the different languages used by...

Phonetic Adaptation of Hungarian Loanwords in Romanian

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 119 - 138

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0059

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