CONFÉRENCE DE Michael J. Kenstowicz (M.I.T.) LE 17 NOVEMBRE (attention : salle inhabituelle)

[AROUI Jean-Louis]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son 
séminaire (http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article667),

le lundi 17 novembre 2008
10h00-12h00,
Université Paris VIII, 2, rue de la liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis (métro 
Saint-Denis Université, ligne 13)
[la salle D143 étant exceptionnellement indisponible ce jour-là, LA SALLE DANS 
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ET SERA INDIQUÉE EN LIGNE À LA PAGE 
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article667 DÈS QUE POSSIBLE],

à une conférence de Michael J. Kenstowicz (M.I.T.)

intitulée

« Emphatic Consonants and the Adaptation of Vowels in French Loanwords into 
Moroccan Arabic » (joint research with Nabila Louriz, University Hassan II).

Résumé :
It is well known that redundant (enhancing) features in a vowel can signal a 
phonemic contrast in an adjacent consonant. For example, English vowel 
duration and nasality are tied directly to the voicing and nasality of a 
following consonant.  In Mandarin Chinese [±back] in a vowel correlates with 
coronal vs. velar nasal in following consonant.  Hsieh et al (2005) show that 
when western loanwords with conflicting vowel and coda nasal combinations 
[an] and [æng] are adapted into Mandarin, the redundant vowel rather than the 
distinctive consonant determines the outcome—a result they attribute to the 
relative saliency of the phonologically redundant vocalic difference vis a 
vis the consonant.  In his groundbreaking study of borrowings into Moroccan 
Arabic, Heath (1989) identified another striking example of this phenomenon, 
observing that the mid vowels of French <moquette> are preserved by 
introducing emphasis (pharyngealization) on the consonants in the 
loan /MukeT/. He also pointed to the variability of the phenomenon since 
Spanish muñeca is borrowed as MA /munik-a/ rather than /muNek-a/ 
or /MuNek-a/. In this presentation we review the results of a detailed study 
of this phenomenon from a corpus of c. 1,800 French loans.  We discuss the 
competing phonological and phonetic factors that underlie the adaptations and 
appear to give rise to its variability.


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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique77
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