Language Inventory & Borrowed Words PDF

We can learn a lot about the inventories of other languages by looking at ‘borrowed words.’ Japanese has borrowed a lot of words from English: English baseball lemon Japanese be:subo:ru remon Look at the what happens to the ‘l’ sound. What does this tell us about the phonetic inventory in Japanese...

We can learn a lot about the inventories of other languages by looking at ‘borrowed words.’ Japanese has borrowed a lot of words from English: English baseball lemon Japanese be:subo:ru remon Look at the what happens to the ‘l’ sound. What does this tell us about the phonetic inventory in Japanese? McDonalds in Japan McDonalds hamburger à makudonarudo hamba:ga: What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? — You understand the sound patterns in your language, what sound sequences are possible: Phonology is the study of rules for putting together sounds Can you think of any English words that begin with [tr]? ¡ What about [rt]? ¡ Compare with Russian [rtut] ‘mercury’ ¡ What kind of Building Blocks & Rules? — With this knowledge you can also determine what constitutes a possible word: ¡ Is frottle a possible word of English? More possible words in English — Bad lip reading: https://youtu.be/_DErurte4CE?t=73