<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The work examines the most recent English borrowings in Hungarian, and it focuses on their morphophonological integration. By analysing the re-adjustment (if any) that they undergo in order to fit in the phonotactic requirements of Hungarian, it is revealed that the language employs a specific adaptation strategy. The aim is to show that by not obeying certain phonological laws in the process of perception and adapting the newly arrived loanwords, in fact, Hungarian demonstrates a tendency to mark these lexical items as foreign.</p></abstract>

The work examines the most recent English borrowings in Hungarian, and it focuses on their morphophonological integration. By analysing the re-adjustment (if any) that they undergo in order to fit in the phonotactic requirements of Hungarian, it is revealed that the language employs a specific adaptation strategy. The aim is to show that by not obeying certain phonological laws in the process of perception and adapting the newly arrived loanwords, in fact, Hungarian demonstrates a tendency to mark these lexical items as foreign.

Marking the Foreign Word – A Case Study of Recent English Loans in Hungarian

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The work examines the most recent English borrowings in Hungarian, and it focuses on their morphophonological integration. By analysing the re-adjustment (if...

Marking the Foreign Word – A Case Study of Recent English Loans in Hungarian

Published Online: Feb 16, 2018

Page range: 53 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0017

Keywords
loanword adaptation, Hungarian, phonology

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Marking the Foreign Word – A Case Study of Recent English Loans in Hungarian

Published Online: Feb 16, 2018

Page range: 53 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0017

Keywordsloanword adaptation, Hungarian, phonology

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
loanword adaptation, Hungarian, phonology