Mandarin Loanwords

By Tae Eun Kim

Book Overview

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people's daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important in the analyses, and vowel adaptation and tonal adaptation is also considered.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036759711X
• ISBN13: 9780367597115
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"