Perceptual Level of Analysis

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:24PM

The first level of analysis, where the non-linguistic, acoustic features of a loan word are perceived and separated into usable chunks by the native speaker of the recipient language. The linking of acoustic features from a foreign word to their closest match in the recipient native phonemic inventory occurs here. (phonology)

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