Word Structure Change in Language Contact

Word Structure Change in Language Contact

Languages have been in contact since their existence. The Hungarian and Romanian languages have been so for at least 800 years. The present article aims at analysing the structural changes in the monosyllabic Hungarian loanwords in Romanian. After the theoretical introduction, I discuss the phonolog...

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Main Author: Both Csaba Attila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-12-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
Subjects:
language contact
syllable structure changes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0032
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spelling doaj-9a5d19f718d8433ca247315ac45b9f662021-09-06T19:41:27ZengSciendoActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica2391-81792018-12-0110313115110.2478/ausp-2018-0032ausp-2018-0032Word Structure Change in Language ContactBoth Csaba Attila0Doctoral School for Hungarian StudiesBabeş–Bolyai University, Department of Applied LinguisticsSapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) Faculty of Technical and Human SciencesLanguages have been in contact since their existence. The Hungarian and Romanian languages have been so for at least 800 years. The present article aims at analysing the structural changes in the monosyllabic Hungarian loanwords in Romanian. After the theoretical introduction, I discuss the phonological status of the /j/ sound, which is very important in this kind of investigations. After that, I present the syllable structure types of these monosyllabic Hungarian etymons and I present, as well, the changing schemes of their structures in the borrowing. The study concludes that the most affected parts of the syllables are the nucleus and the coda.https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0032language contactsyllable structure changes
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Word Structure Change in Language Contact
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
language contact
syllable structure changes
author_facet Both Csaba Attila
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title Word Structure Change in Language Contact
title_short Word Structure Change in Language Contact
title_full Word Structure Change in Language Contact
title_fullStr Word Structure Change in Language Contact
title_full_unstemmed Word Structure Change in Language Contact
title_sort word structure change in language contact
publisher Sciendo
series Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
issn 2391-8179
publishDate 2018-12-01
description Languages have been in contact since their existence. The Hungarian and Romanian languages have been so for at least 800 years. The present article aims at analysing the structural changes in the monosyllabic Hungarian loanwords in Romanian. After the theoretical introduction, I discuss the phonological status of the /j/ sound, which is very important in this kind of investigations. After that, I present the syllable structure types of these monosyllabic Hungarian etymons and I present, as well, the changing schemes of their structures in the borrowing. The study concludes that the most affected parts of the syllables are the nucleus and the coda.
topic language contact
syllable structure changes
url https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0032
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