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| Title: | What is the “Nonce Borrowing Hypothesis” anyway? |
| Author: | Margaret Deuchar |
| Homepage: | http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/margaret_deuchar.php.en |
| Institution: | Bangor University |
| Author: | Jonathan Roy Stammers |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Bangor University |
| Linguistic Field: | Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition |
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Welsh |
| Abstract: | In this rejoinder to Shana Poplack's response to Stammers & Deuchar (this issue), we argue that our reformulation of the nonce borrowing hypothesis (NBH) to include specific reference to frequency was needed in order to make the hypothesis more precise and testable. Furthermore, in order to test the assumption that codeswitching (CS) and borrowing (B) are two distinct categories, it was necessary to suspend this assumption in our study. This led us to find support for a possible CS/B distinction, but not for the categorical integration of all borrowings regardless of frequency. In discussing our methods, we maintain that soft mutation is an appropriate measure of morphosyntactic integration in Welsh, and is no more purely phonetic than any other morphosyntactically triggered process. |
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This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 15, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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