The phonology of words with monosyllabic stems in Malay

It is generally observed that when monosyllabic stems undergo the process of affixation with verbal prefixes /mN-/ and /di-/ in Malay, two phonological alternations surface in the output forms, namely vowel lengthening (i.e. /di-pam/  [dipam] „to pump (passive)‟), and schwa epenthesis (i.e. /mN-...

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Main Authors: Zaharani Ahmad,, Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2645/1/zaharani011.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2645/
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