phonetic adaptation
Pronunciation becomes native
Phonetic adaptation is the process by which borrowed words or foreign sounds are modified to fit the sound patterns of the borrowing language.
When English adopted the French *hors d'oeuvres*, speakers reshaped it to fit English pronunciation habits.
The phenomenon explains why the same word sounds different across languages: Japanese lacks certain English consonant clusters, so *strike* becomes *sutoraiku*.
- interlanguageEvolving system between tongues
- second languageTongue learned after childhood
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
foreign accent · creole · phoneme · speech patterns · language immersion · pidgin · vowel · foreign · dialect · tongue · accent · sound · consonant · approximation · shift · loanword · mimicry · mouth
- loanwordsloanword, loan words, borrowings, borrowed words, loan word
- Language phenomenaloanwords, borrowings, pidgins, creoles, dialects
- Contact Languagespidgin, creole language, trade language, pidginization, relexification
- diaspora languagesPennsylvania Dutch, heritage language, heritage speakers, Yiddish