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Lexical Borrowing in Modern Icelandic and Syllabic Structure Constraints.
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Richter, Gregory C. – 1984
An analysis of the nature of the lexical borrowing of Icelandic from American English focuses on the phonological processes occurring in the adoption of American English forms. Background information on borrowing in Icelandic is provided, and a crucial distinction is made between aural borrowing and loanwords from written sources. The role of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing