TY - BOOK AU - Marek Radomski PY - 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2365-8150 SN - 9783631772256 TI - Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth T2 - A study in online loanword adaptation DO - 10.3726/b14998 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057498 N2 - The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent in English, by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched within the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for the phonological approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon and shows that the proposed perspective allows for a deep insight into the nature of the collected language data. KW - Loan phonology, Optimality Theory, Phonotactics, Sonority, Online borrowings LA - English ER -