Lexical Borrowing

Grant, Anthony P.

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“…One more general shortcoming concerns our artificial partitioning of language change into phonetic change and change on different linguistic levels, including simultaneous change at the lexical and phonetic levels due to lexical borrowing. This process is cross-linguistically widespread in contact situations (Grant, 2015) and the possible interplay between phonetic and lexical change is perhaps more important than we give it credit for in this study. The longstanding language contact between, for example, the Low Saxon and Low Franconian areas has led to considerable lexical borrowing between the corresponding languages (though mostly unilaterally from Standard Dutch into Low Saxon).…”

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confidence: 75%

Estimating the Level and Direction of Phonetic Dialect Change in the Northern Netherlands

Raoul¹,

Sekeres²,

Heeringa³

et al. 2021

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This article reports ongoing investigations into phonetic change of dialect groups in the northern Netherlandic language area, particularly the Frisian and Low Saxon dialect groups, which are known to differ in vitality. To achieve this, we combine existing phonetically transcribed corpora with dialectometric approaches that allow us to quantify change among older male dialect speakers in a real-time framework. A multidimensional variant of the Levenshtein distance, combined with methods that induce realistic phonetic distances between transcriptions, is used to estimate how much dialect groups have changed between 1990 and 2010, and whether they changed towards Standard Dutch or away from it. Our analyses indicate that language change is a slow process in this geographical area. Moreover, the Frisian and Groningen dialect groups seem to be most stable, while the other Low Saxon varieties (excluding the Groningen dialect group) were shown to be most prone to change. We offer possible explanations for our findings, while we discuss shortcomings of the data and approach in detail, as well as desiderata for future research.

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confidence: 75%

Estimating the Level and Direction of Phonetic Dialect Change in the Northern Netherlands

Raoul¹,

Sekeres²,

Heeringa³

et al. 2021

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“…We differentiate between inher-ited words, or cognates, which developed from words in an earlier stage of the language, and borrowed words, which are taken from or developed from words of another language. Borrowing is a continuous process with different stages: words are first introduced into the language as a completely foreign sounding word; they are gradually adapted to the phonological and morphological rules of the borrowing language until eventually they are considered to be common words of the language (Haspelmath, 2009;Grant, 2015;Campbell, 2020).…”

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“…The reasons that words are borrowed or shared across languages include geographical language contact, phylogenetic closeness, and common cultural background (Haspelmath, 2009;Grant, 2015;Campbell, 2020). It is not always easy to tell whether a word is borrowed, native, or a switch.…”

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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP

2023

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Multilingual models have been widely used for cross-lingual transfer to low-resource languages. However, the performance on these languages is hindered by their underrepresentation in the pretraining data. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel multilingual training technique based on teacherstudent knowledge distillation. In this setting, we utilize monolingual teacher models optimized for their language. We use those teachers along with balanced (sub-sampled) data to distill the teachers' knowledge into a single multilingual student. Our method outperforms standard training methods in lowresource languages and retains performance on high-resource languages. 1 5 6 See Section D.2 in the Appendix for more information.

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“…Lexical borrowing is the transmission from one language to another of a label in the view of naming a concept (Grant, 2015). Borrowing is certainly the most visible and the most disparaged case of change on languages.…”

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Wolof Terminology: Lexical Morphology and Sociolinguistic Implications

Diagne¹

2020

IJL

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In this paper, we study the lexical morphology of Wolof and tools for terminologization. We focus on prefixes and suffixes. We will apply morphological analysis using the NooJ tool for the identification and extraction of terms from a corpus. We will also discuss the modality of corpus constitution and sources.The lexicon and morphology of Wolof are pretexts for terminological work. Beyond the linguistic aspects, we are interested in the sociolinguistic implications of the development of terminological units in this language. This is part of the general framework of language planning which, to be effective, must be taken into account through a clear and accepted language policy. The social impact covers the fields of scientific and general culture, thus contributing to the vitality of the language, to its social consolidation and to a change in the perception of speakers towards Wolof.Terminologie wolof: morphologie lexicale et implications sociolinguistiques

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Lexical Borrowing

Cited by 10 publications

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Estimating the Level and Direction of Phonetic Dialect Change in the Northern Netherlands

Estimating the Level and Direction of Phonetic Dialect Change in the Northern Netherlands

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP

Wolof Terminology: Lexical Morphology and Sociolinguistic Implications

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