Abstract
The investigation of loanword phonology has been immensely fruitful. Generally, research on loanword phonology has focused on the interaction of borrowing and lending phonologies, the interaction of phonetic and phonological representations, and the influence of extra-grammatical factors, like orthography and sociocultural prestige, in patterns of loanword adaptation. In addition, evidence from loans has clarified the analysis of the native phonology. This second, more narrow focus is the goal of this paper. We investigate patterns of obstruent voicing in loans to further understand the phonology of Kazakh. Non-coronal obstruents in Kazakh alternate for voicing at morpheme boundaries. Considering only the native and nativized lexica of the language, an analysis of either intervocalic voicing or syllable-final devoicing would seem most plausible. Each rule is able to account for all the data presented below. However, evidence from relatively recent loans supports the need for both rules, an analysis that would otherwise be strongly dispreferred by traditional notions of economy.