Abstract
Contact between Old French and three /h/-bearing varieties of Germanic (i.e. Frankish, Old East Scandinavian, Middle Dutch) transpired in present-day Normandy and Belgium from the early 8th to the late 14th century. During this period, an influx of Germanic loanwords entered Old French, restoring phonemic /h/. In this study, we assemble an exhaustive dataset of Old East Scandinavian and Middle Dutch loans containing /h/, track the different adaptation strategies into Old French and examine them in terms of current models of loanword phonology.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Romance Linguistics 2012. Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012 |
| Editors | Jason Smith, Tabea Ihsane |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Pages | 133-144 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789027268310 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory |
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| Volume | 7 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1574-552X |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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