Reverse Borrowings of English Corruptions of Spanish.

Adkins, Patricia G.

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ERIC Number: ED038888

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Publication Date: 1968-Nov

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Reverse Borrowings of English Corruptions of Spanish.

Adkins, Patricia G.

A brief glimpse of the on-going process of loanword borrowing in a bilingual culture is accompanied by frequent examples. The phenomenon described as "reverse borrowings of English corruptions" refers to linguistic occurrences in which the native speaker adapts a loanword which is, in fact, a corrupted version of his native language which he does not recognize. (RL)

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Contact, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Universals, Spanish, Vocabulary, Word Recognition

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Authoring Institution: Speech Association of America, New York, NY.

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Note: Reprint from The Speech Teacher, v17 n4 p331-333 Nov 1968