Morphological Adaptation of English Loanwords in Twitter: Educational Implications

Dashti, Fatimah; Dashti, Abdulmohsen A.

doi:10.5430/ijhe.v6n3p231

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“…Many researchers investigated the integration of loanwords into different Arabic varieties such as Classical Arabic (Bueasa, 2015), Standard Arabic (Al-Qinai, 2000, Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabic (Smeaton, 1973), Moroccan Arabic (Heath, 2013), Jordanian Arabic (Al-Saidat, 2011Alomoush & Al Fagara, 2010;Guba, 2016;Salem, 2015), Egyptian Arabic (Hafez, 1996), Kuwaiti Arabic (Dashti & Dashti, 2017), Iraqi Arabic (Mohammed, 2009). Since borrowing occurs at different linguistic levels, several studies examined loanwords from lexical, semantic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological perspectives.…”

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Absence of English Phonemes from Arabic; The Impact on EFL and ESL learners’ Production of Loanwords

Ruthan

2022

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The present study aims to address whether the absence of foreign English phonemes from the Arabic phonemic inventory have impacts of EFL and ESL learners’ pronunciation of English loanwords differently. The study adopts a comparative approach, seeking to examine whether the two groups of learners used the same or different phonemes for substituting or approximating the target phonemes. 28 English loanwords were utilized to test the productions of 15 learners at Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia (EFL) and 15 learners at the Center for English as a Second Language in Southern Illinois University, USA (ESL). Probing the impact of the learners’ L1, Arabic language, on the production of loanwords via numerous theories and frameworks such as transfer, approximation, and the Markedness Differential Hypothesis showed that these English loanwords underwent certain phonological modifications. Both EFL and ESL learners showed transfer from L1 to L2, native Arabic phonological processes, while only ESL learners showed a universal pattern, such as VOT approximation. That is, both EFL and ESL learners substituted /v, ɹ, tʃ/ with /f, r, ʃ/, but they differed in their production of /p/. While EFL learners substituted /p/ with /b/, ESL learners reflected approximated sound to /p/.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Absence of English Phonemes from Arabic; The Impact on EFL and ESL learners’ Production of Loanwords

Ruthan

2022

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“…Loanword adaptations have been a matter of interest for many researchers for a long time. Hasan and Khan (2019) have cited a few recent studies in this regard which include loanword adaptation in Mandarin Chinese conducted by Miao (2005), Kenstowicz and Suchato (2006)'s study on issues in loanword adaptation, English loanwords in the spoken Arabic of the southern part of Iraq carried out by Abdullah and Daffar (2006), influence of orthography on loanword adaptations (Vendelin & Peperkamp, 2006), English loanwords in Burmese explored by Chang (2009), phonotactic adaptation of English loanwords in Arabic (Al-Athwary, 2017) and morphological adaptation of English loanwords in twitter conducted by Dashti and Dashti (2017) etc. In the Pakistani context, studies like Morphophonemics of loanwords in translation (Al-Qinal, 2002), vowel substitution: a comparative study of English loans in Punjabi and Urdu , phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Pahari (A. Q.…”

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Phonemic Variation of Urdu Loanwords in Standard British English

Hasan¹,

Gulfam²

2021

IJICC

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Borrowing is one of the most common sources of new words in languages and loanwords are one of the types of borrowings across language boundaries. The English language has adopted many words from other languages throughout history. In this process, loanwords sometimes undergo certain variations. The present study is about phonemic variation of Urdu loanwords in standard British English. A list of 135 Urdu words of daily use that English has borrowed was compiled purposively from Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary, 10th ed. (2020) for analysis. All words in the list were transcribed into IPA. Urdu pronunciation was checked from ("Urdu Lughat," 2017) and Farhang-e-Talaffuz (2017) whereas English pronunciation was checked from Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary 10th ed. (2020) and a comparison was made to highlight phonemic variation. Analysis of data indicates that almost one third loanwords retain their pronunciation and among the rest, the majority of words undergo change of vowel sounds whereas others either change a consonant sound or vowel and consonant both in some cases.

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“…Speakers do not borrow words to fill the linguistics gap, but to show the novelty of the particular language. (Dashti & Dashti, 2017) On the subject of Pakistani English, it came into notice, that speakers used loanword to fill the semantics gap since they don't have a similar term in the English language. As a result, this lexical acquiring in Pakistani English mainly falls under the category of deficit hypothesis.…”

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Morphological Integration of Urdu Loan Words in Pakistani English

Khan¹

2020

ELT

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Pakistani English is a variety of English language concerning Sentence structure, Morphology, Phonology, Spelling, and Vocabulary. The one semantic element, which makes the investigation of Pakistani English additionally fascinating is the Vocabulary. Pakistani English uses many loan words from Urdu language and other local dialects, which have become an integral part of Pakistani English, and the speakers don't feel odd while using these words. Numerous studies are conducted on Pakistani English Vocabulary, yet a couple manage to deal with morphology. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the morphological integration of Urdu loan words in Pakistani English. Another purpose of the study is to investigate the main reasons of this morphological integration process. The Qualitative research method is used in this study. Researcher prepares a sample list of 50 loan words for the analysis. These words are randomly chosen from the newspaper “The Dawn” since it is the most dispersed English language newspaper in Pakistan. Some words are selected from the Books and Novellas of Pakistani English fiction authors, and concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition. The results show that, when the Urdu language loan words are morphologically integrated in Pakistan English, they do not change their grammatical category. Moreover, four distinguished morphological process are identified in integration of these loan words. The results also reveal that deficit hypothesis is the main reason of this lexical borrowin.

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Morphological Adaptation of English Loanwords in Twitter: Educational Implications

Cited by 10 publications

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Absence of English Phonemes from Arabic; The Impact on EFL and ESL learners’ Production of Loanwords

Absence of English Phonemes from Arabic; The Impact on EFL and ESL learners’ Production of Loanwords

Phonemic Variation of Urdu Loanwords in Standard British English

Morphological Integration of Urdu Loan Words in Pakistani English

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