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Abstract
The current study explores the phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) through investigating the adaptation in all the phonological levels. These are the segmental level, the syllabic level, and the lexical stress assignment. This investigation is performed utilizing the feature geometry for the segmental level, and the moraic theory within the frame of the optimality theory (OT) for the syllabic level and the lexical stress. This was accomplished by examining 120 well- established and recent English loanwords, which were elicited from 60 ECA native speakers.
The results show that the premise for the adaptation in ECA is phonological where the source sounds are mapped to the closest phonemes, neglecting all the irrelevant phonetic details. Besides, the terminal features in the feature geometry are the ones that undergo modification, which conforms to the principles of the Theory of Constraints and Repair Strategies (TCRS). The syllables‟ adaptation sheds light on constructions that are not attested in ECA as complex onsets. Therefore, the adaptation process activates and deactivates some the OT constraints of ECA phonology. It also highlights the influence of the orthography, the novelty and the commonness of the borrowed word on the adaptation process. With respect to the influence of the independent variables, only the influence of the exposure to English was statistically significant. However, the other variables showed insignificant influence. For instance, the adults group and the females produced more faithful adaptations than the other groups.