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

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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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:25PM

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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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:25PM

Perfective Aspect

An action is viewed as a single and unanalyzable whole. (semantics)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:25PM

Person

A grammatical feature that indicates the participant role of a noun phrase. (morphology)

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Past, Present, and Future

Find out where the FLA is heading!