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Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic

This study investigates the phonological adaptation of diphthongs within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic (IA). In contrast to earlier small-scale descriptive studies, this study used quantitative content analysis to analyse 346 established loanwords collected through document review and direct obs...

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Main Authors: Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid, Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023
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spelling my-ukm.journal.223212023-10-11T01:14:53Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22321/ Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali This study investigates the phonological adaptation of diphthongs within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic (IA). In contrast to earlier small-scale descriptive studies, this study used quantitative content analysis to analyse 346 established loanwords collected through document review and direct observation to determine the diphthong adaptation patterns involved in the nativisation of English loanwords by native speakers of IA. Content analysis results revealed that most GB diphthong adaptations in English loanwords in IA occur in systematic patterns and thus may be ascribed to particular aspects in both L1 and L2 phonological systems. More specifically, the results indicate that the IA output forms tend to maintain the features of the GB input diphthong to the greatest extent possible by either replacing diphthongs with vowel-plus-glide sequences or reducing them to single vowels. Still, several diphthong adaptations were not found to be dictated by phonological considerations, and the way the words were spelt seemed to play a part in the process. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22321/1/TD%2014.pdf Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid and Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali (2023) Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 29 (2). pp. 199-215. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/index
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description This study investigates the phonological adaptation of diphthongs within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic (IA). In contrast to earlier small-scale descriptive studies, this study used quantitative content analysis to analyse 346 established loanwords collected through document review and direct observation to determine the diphthong adaptation patterns involved in the nativisation of English loanwords by native speakers of IA. Content analysis results revealed that most GB diphthong adaptations in English loanwords in IA occur in systematic patterns and thus may be ascribed to particular aspects in both L1 and L2 phonological systems. More specifically, the results indicate that the IA output forms tend to maintain the features of the GB input diphthong to the greatest extent possible by either replacing diphthongs with vowel-plus-glide sequences or reducing them to single vowels. Still, several diphthong adaptations were not found to be dictated by phonological considerations, and the way the words were spelt seemed to play a part in the process.
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author Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid
Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali
spellingShingle Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid
Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali
Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
author_facet Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid
Al-Ubaidy, Sundus Muhsin Ali
author_sort Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Hamid
title Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
title_short Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
title_full Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
title_fullStr Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of diphthong adaptation within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic
title_sort patterns of diphthong adaptation within english loanwords in iraqi arabic
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2023
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22321/1/TD%2014.pdf
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