Phonetic Attraction and Homonymic Collision in Language Contact

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.087How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Phonetic Attraction, Homonymic Collision, Glottogram, Hokkien in Taiwan

Abstract

“Phonetic Attraction” and “Homonymic Collision” are important “internal factors” that interfere with the linearity of lexical change. These “non-linear change” may have a much greater impact on language changes than “linear change.” This paper will take the two words “sister”(Muē) and “congee”(muê) in Hokkien in Taiwan as examples to observe how the language produces “phonetic attraction” and proceeds “ homonymic avoidance “ in the process of language contact.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - jung-min Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Phonetic Attraction and Homonymic Collision in Language Contact
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 443
EP  - 446
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.087
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.087
ID  - Li2021
ER  -