Adaptation Rates of West Old Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian: A Quantitative Study
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2023
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The study presents and evaluates the phonetic adaptations of 377 West old Turkic loanwords in Hungarian by measuring the phonetic distance with the Levenshtein distance formula. A more sensitive edit distance algorithm is proposed with a reduced operation cost for less distant assimilations. A “distinctive feature” weighted approach is adopted for the task, and the set of phonemes concerning Turkic and Hungarian languages are evaluated and categorized in a distinctive feature matrix by their features. Reconstructed WOT words in their latest form before the borrowing, were used for the data. These are treated as the origins of the relevant vocabulary in Hungarian. The adaptation rate is quantified for each word pair and overall. In addition to this, several patterns in terms of regular adaptations are discussed, and some problematic issues regarding the calculation of the distance between some particular sounds in both languages are brought out. While this paper is a continuation of the ongoing trend of emphasizing refinement approaches to operation costs in Levenshtein algorithms, it is also an attempt to formulate loanword adaptation by using linguistic typology. Turkic languages and Hungarian are two sides that shared historically the same sprachbund for a long period and are known to have some mutualities such as agglutinative structures, harmonical features, rich vowel inventories, etc, this study also holds the motivation to be a contribution to the field of contact linguistics.
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Contact linguistics, distinctive features, Hungarian, Historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, loanword adaptation, Oghur, Levenshtein distance, operation cost, phonetic assimilation, edit distance
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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