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