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标题：Loanword Nativization in German
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作者：T. A. Hall und ; Silke Hamann
期刊名称：Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
印刷版ISSN：0721-9067
电子版ISSN：1613-3706
出版年度：2003
卷号：22
期号：1
页码：56-85
DOI：10.1515/zfsw.2003.22.1.56
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：The present article examines the changes that affect stressed vowels in the nativization of loanwords into Standard German, e.g. laxing of vowels like [i] to [i] in Ffijrma (< Italian Ffijrma). An Optimality-Theoretic treatment (Prince & Smolensky 1993) of the loanword data is proposed in which the nativization process is accounted for by ranking two MARKEDNESS constraints ahead of two FAITH constraints. A significant finding is that these four constraints äs well äs the ranking MARKEDNESS :» FAITH are independently required for the nätive lexicon of German. Thus, we conclude that our treatment is inherently superior to any rule-based analysis because a rule-based treatment would be foreed to posit specific rules to account for the loanword data which have no independent motivation.