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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Newsreaders' Disease  (was Pronouncing your name in another language)
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:39:24 GMT
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In article <3fb4f8$dec@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> djohns@grove.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
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>And then there's the "if it's foreign, it must be Spanish" rule that
>results in Sarajevo being pronounced with a [h] in the middle ...

I read an interesting article in the book _The Reality of Linguistic
Rules_ (Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1994) about this phenomenon.  It
was called "Systematic hyperforeignisms as maximally external evidence
for linguistic rules" (R.D. Aranda, et al.) and attempted to prove that
Spanish intonation as the first default for foreign names helped
explain the common English mispronunciations of Japanese and Hebrew
names.  Full of nice examples and well worth reading.
 

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