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This study tests the following question: Do loanwords have a high degree of semantic specificity relative to their receiving-language equivalents? Extending Backus’s Specificity Hypothesis, we predict that loanwords are more specific than their native equivalents.
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This page is a summary of: Using distributional semantics in loanword research: A concept-based approach to quantifying semantic specificity of Anglicisms in Spanish, International Journal of Bilingualism, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1367006916635836.
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