A Report on the Distribution of Phonetic Renderings in Loanwords
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS, vol.25, no.1, pp.38-52, 2018 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 25 Issue: 1
- Publication Date: 2018
- Doi Number: 10.1080/09296174.2017.1338121
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS
- Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.38-52
- Istanbul University Affiliated: No
Abstract
The paper analyses the distribution of counts of phonetic renderings in 25 adaptations of loanwords from three methodologically different datasets, and concludes that all are consistent with the Zipf-Alekseev distribution. In addition, an intriguing correlation between the coefficients is observed.