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Phonological Phenomena of Hungarian Loanwords in the Romanian Language
Phonological Phenomena of Hungarian Loanwords in the Romanian Language

Author(s): Csaba Attila Both
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: phonological phenomena; contact languages; Romanian vocabulary; borrowings

Summary/Abstract: The research of languages in contact has a relatively long history all over the world, but there have not been conducted many detailed researches regarding the contacts of the Romanian language. The present study aims to present the phonological phenomena occurring in the Hungarian loanwords in the Romanian: aphaeresis, prosthesis, epenthesis, anaptyxe, syncope, apocope, paragoge, and metathesis. The study includes the investigation of a corpus comprised of 1,029 Hungarian loanwords in the Romanian language.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 117-126
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English