DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaadaptation
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviishape (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[…] Monolinguals to whom the word is passed on will alter its shape even more, thought not always in the same direction. This modification of the shape of the incoming word is called ‘adaptation’: usually it leads to a shape more in keeping with the inherited pronunciation habits of the borrowers […].
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 417