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phono-semantic matching
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linguistic borrowing in which the sound and meaning of a foreign word are adjusted to match existing phonetic and semantic elements in the target language
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- Subclass of
- linguistic borrowing
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- different from
- homophonic translation
- short name
- PSA
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