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单词 loanword
释义
loanword
noun[C]
languagespecialized
uk
/ˈləʊn.wɜːd/us
/ˈloʊn.wɝːd/
a word taken from onelanguageand used in another:
外来语
diacriticmarksused inloanwords like theFrench"naïveté"外来语中的变音符，如法语“naïveté”
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Grammar

Loan words and new words
Loan words are words that are borrowed from other languages. Some recent loan words for food taken from other languages include: sushi, tapas, chapatti, pizza. When we use loan words, we do not normally change them, though we do sometimes inflect them if they are singular countable nouns (pizzas, chapattis). We also sometimes pronounce them more like English words, instead of using their original pronunciation.…
(Definition ofloanwordfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofloanword

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Consequently, perceptual assimilation is expected to be massively responsible forloanwordadaptations.
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This produces the sound adaptations in loanwords that we observe on the surface.
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In these cases, the loanwords which served as constituents of larger words were written in katakana.
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Where different sound changes have applied (even minor ones), careful attention to sound correspondences allows for the identification of loanwords.
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The list also reports the frequency of occurrence of individual loanwords in different newspapers and magazines.
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The adoption of loanwords is shown to be a common process, although for these 77 items, it is a little less common than descriptive coinage.
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Accordingly, even a corpus of loanwords drawn from a society where bilingualism is quite limited is relevant to phonology.
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Addressing and disconfirming some predictions of phonetic approximation forloanwordadaptation.
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Though informal, this test further indicates that phonetic variants have little impact on the phonological adaptation of loanwords.
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The loanwords were not pronounced by the interviewers.
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Historically the natural tendency has been for loanwords to change to conform to the new linguistic system in which they are used.
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Intervening factors, such as analogy, orthography, etc. inloanwordadaptation, cannot be completely controlled.
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I do not mean to imply that reanalysis or the adaptation of loanwords are uninteresting to the morphophonologist.
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The experiments discussed in this paper bear on the question ofloanwordadaptation from a slightly different perspective.
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It is the absence of this articulator node in the borrowing language which causes the problem and, consequently, the deletion of \\h\\ in loanwords.
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