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Peer reviewedParadis, Carole; Prunet, Jean-Francois – Language, 2000
Demonstrates that the substitution of a foreign segment in the borrowing of a database, which includes 14,350 segmental malformations from French and English loanwords in eight distinct languages, involves its replacement by a single native placement. This tendency is without exception, other than in cases where nasal vowels are concerned.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Databases, English, French
