Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe loanword adaptation strategies in Russian loanwords of Mansi dialects with special reference to word-initial complex onsets, and to examine the interdependence between the repair strategies of Mansi and the phonetic properties of complex onsets. It attempts to prove that the primary driving forces behind those repair strategies are not phonotactic constraints but perceptual properties of the clusters. This diachronic approach takes issue with purely structural (syllable structure preserving) or phonological explanations and favours those that claim phonetic conditioning of these processes, leading uniformly to phonotactic adaptations, i.e., it hypothesises cause-and-effect relationships between them. The analysis will focus exclusively on relatively recent data of Mansi dialect groups of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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