Analogical Modeling Of Japanese Loanword Formation From English

Authors

Nate Blaylock, Brigham Young University
Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Japanese loanword formation, English, Analogical Modeling of Language, AML

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

Abstract

The topic of this research, by way of review, was to try to predict, using the Analogical Modeling of Language (AML) method, the formation of Japanese loanwords from English. In other words, given an English word, how would a Japanese person pronounce it if they adopted it into Japanese. (Ice cream being pronounced aisu kurimu, for example). It was intended to be a test of the strengths and weaknesses of AML for this kind of a task (it has already been attempted by others using other methods).

Recommended Citation

Blaylock, Nate and Lonsdale, Dr. Deryle (2014) "Analogical Modeling Of Japanese Loanword Formation From English," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 673.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/673