Phonological adaptation

Translations

adattamento fonologico | adaptation phonologique | phonologische Anpassung

Article

By phonological adaptation we indicate the process by which a word from a model language is adapted to the phonemic inventory of a target language upon borrowing. Unlike diachronic sound laws within a single language, the changes that occur upon adaptation are not completely regular, even though tendencies may exist for a same phoneme of L1 to be generally rendered as a same phoneme of L2.