100852 articleid 16956885v11p41 eng Kang, Yoonjung University of Toronto Scarborough. Centre for French and Linguistics The Adaptation of English Liquids in Contemporary Korean : a Diachronic Study This paper examines the diachronic development of English liquid adaptation in Contemporary Korean (1890-Present) based on a number of loanword lists from different time periods. The examination of initial liquids shows that contrary to common assumption, the initial liquids are often realized as [n], showing that the Tu?m rule (a rule of initial liquid avoidance) is still active, although marginally. The adaptation of word-medial /l/ varies between singleton [?] and geminate [ll]. A quantitative study finds evidence for both of two competing explanations for the variation—(1) the singleton adaptation is a remnant of Japanese-mediated loans and (2) the variation is conditioned by the durational characteristics of English input—but the former turns out to be a more dominant factor and the latter plays only a minor role. Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ Anglès Article de fons Manlleus Coreà Anglès Japonès Diacronia Loanwords Korean English Japanese Diachrony info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Vol. 11, Núm. (2012), p. 41-63 Catalan journal of linguistics 1695-6885 23 535816 http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/cjol/cjol_a2012v11/cjol_a2012v11p41-2.pdf 0041 63 11 cjol_a2012v11 2012 ARTPUB UAB CJOL artpubuab oai:ddd.uab.cat:100852 driver