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Impossible nativizations as phonological evidence and the explanation of constraints on phonological structure1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Donald G. Churma
Donald G. Churma
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Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
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It has been argued in a number of studies that the facts of loan phonology in Japanese and in Miami Cuban Spanish provide strong support for David Stampe's theory (see especially Stampe, 1973, Donegan & Stampe, 1979) of ‘natural phonology’ (cf. Ohso, 1971 Lovins, 1973, 1974; Bjarkman, 1976). To the evidence adduced in these studies, I would like to add some evidence from English. The English evidence is especially compelling, since it involves not only actual nativizations, but (intuitions about) IMPOSSIBLE nativizations.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , September 1984 , pp. 223 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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