[Lingtyp] Loanwords tend to have more uncommon phonemes?

[Nina Dobrushina]

Der Ian,
you might find useful this paper -

Kang, Yoonjung. 2011. Loanword phonology. In *Companion to phonology*, ed.
Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, 2258–2282.
Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781444335262.wbctp0095

Best,
Nina Dobrushina
https://ilcl.hse.ru/

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 5:46 PM Kristine Hildebrandt <khildeb at siue.edu>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Hmmm...exotic and rare/uncommon? I myself am not sure how to really
> evaluate that (unless you are really focusing on sounds like the labial
> flap or epiglottals, for example). But in terms of appearance/incorporation
> of sounds that are not typically part of the "profile" of a borrowing
> language and/or its relatives, I think that to some extent, it depends on
> factors like age of the loanword (how long it's been integrated into the
> lexicon of the "borrowing" community), and also similarities and
> differences between "borrowing" and "lending" phonologies, and probably
> other equally important factors like frequency of usage. There are some
> edited volumes out there where this is discussed--it may not be the focus
> of individual chapters, but it can be found within the sketches themselves.
> Here are two of several (and I would be keen to see publications or reports
> that really do look at the idea of "rare" sounds in loans or contact
> situations, so thanks in advance):
>
> *Loanwords in the World's Languages*
> <http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/41172>. (editors Martin Haspelmath
> & Uri Tadmoor) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009.
> *Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
> <https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/34187>.* (editors Yaron Matras &
> Jeanette Sakel) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007.
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:17 AM Joo, Ian <joo at shh.mpg.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to know if there are any sources that demonstrate that
>> loanwords tend to have a larger number of rare, uncommon sounds as opposed
>> to native words.
>> My intuition tells me that this is true, but I’ve yet to find any source
>> that makes a general typological claim on this.
>> I would greatly appreciate your help.
>>
>> From Jena,
>> Ian
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