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Operational Level of Analysis
This level precedes the Perceptual Level of Analysis and occurs as a loan word is subjected to the recipient languages phonological/tactic constraints. Deletion, epenthesis, and truncation commonly occur here. (phonology)
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Optative
Indicating a wish, hope, or desire. (semantics)
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Oral Stop
A sound in which the flow of air is completely stopped in the oral cavity (i.e., a stop), with the velum raised, so that no air escapes from the nasal cavity (i.e., different from a nasal stop). (phonetics)
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Orthography
A writing or spelling system. (orthography)
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Paradigm
A list of linguistic items that share a common position or a list of inflectional endings that attach to a word category. (Ex. All pronouns or all inflections that attach to verbs in different syntactic contexts) (morphology)
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Passive
The patient argument is promoted to subject and the agent is demoted to oblique. (syntax)
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Paucal
A number marking that signals a few entities. (morphology)
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Perceptual Level of Analysis
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….
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Perceptual Uniformity Hypothesis
The representation of segments from a lent word will be consistent at the level of perception in the borrowing language despite the position of those segments in a syllable. (phonology)
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Perfective Aspect
An action is viewed as a single and unanalyzable whole. (semantics)
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