Tae Eun Kim

Mandarin Loanwords

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Produktbeschreibung

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people's daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important in the analyses, and vowel adaptation and tonal adaptation is also considered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367597115
• ISBN-10: 036759711X
• Artikelnr.: 69890876

Autorenporträt

Tae Eun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Language and Information Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She received her Master's degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea in 2002, and earned another Master's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States in 2009 and her Ph.D. in 2012. Her research interests are Chinese phonology, Chinese phonetics, Chinese lexicology, and Chinese pedagogy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Lexical stratification and types of Chinese loanwords
3. Comparative study of Mandarin phonology and English phonology
4. Adaptation of Mandarin loanwords originating from English
5. Important factors affecting Mandarin loanword adaptation
6. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography