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Abstract
The role of source language morphology in loanword adaptations is lacking in any experimental literature. The aim of this study is to asses this factor by examining two phonological environments, /Cn/ and /nl/, in nonce loanwords consisting of different morphological structures (monomorphemic and compound) using a novel word learning task. My results produced higher rates of epenthesis in /Cn/ monomorphemic nonce words while the /Cn/ compounds found more nasalization usage. The opposite effect was found in the /nl/ condition, which had higher rates of nasalization in monomorphemic words, and no repair change seen in compounds. While this upholds my hypothesis that there is an effect of source language morphology in loanword adaptations, the interaction effect with the phonology shows that the repair cannot only be dependent on either morphology or phonology alone.