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The theme of my work on loanword adaptation is that most adaptations take place in phonological perception, i.e. as a result of the interaction of structural and cue constraints. The first mention of this is in Boersma (1998:364), but the first explicit case I discussed is the case of the perception of the Portuguese sound [ʒoɐ̃ũ] (the name João) as the phonological surface form /ɲũ/ in Desano, and its subsequent storage as the underlying form |ɲũ| (pages 21–22):
| 2000/12/29 |
The OCP in the perception grammar. Rutgers Optimality Archive 435. 52 pages. |
Explicit OT accounts of vowel insertion in Japanese perception of Russian, inspired by Polivanov (1931), appear in:
| 2004/09/22 |
Richness of the Base is in comprehension. Presentation Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 36 slides. |
| 2009 |
Cue constraints and their interactions in phonological perception and production. In Paul Boersma & Silke Hamann (eds.): Phonology in perception, 55–110. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Earlier version: Rutgers Optimality Archive 944, 2007/11/11. |
For a full description of the model, applied to the Korean adaptation of English, see:
| 2009 | Paul Boersma & Silke Hamann: Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception. In Andrea Calabrese & W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), Loanword phonology, 11–58. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Earlier version: Rutgers Optimality Archive 975, 2008/06/15. Earlier version: Presentation OCP 4, Rhodes, 2007/01/20. |
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