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For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized b

This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and socio

While it is commonly assumed that languages epenthesize context-free default vowels, this book shows that in loanword adaptation, several strategies are found w

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