Source similarity in loanword adaptation: Correspondence Theory and the posited source-language representation Version date: July 3, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jennifer L. Smith University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (To appear in Steve Parker, ed., Phonological Argumentation: Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox.) ** Please contact me (jlsmith AT email DOT unc DOT edu) if you would like a copy of the paper. ** ABSTRACT -------- Source-similarity effects in loanword adaptation are formalized in Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995). A correspondence relation holds between the loanword and the pLs representation, the borrower's posited representation of the source-language form; including the pLs representation in the model allows a consistent account of the interaction between phonological repairs and factors such as perception and orthography. 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