Nasality and voicing in non-standard dialect of Malay

• Autores: Sharifah Kharidah Syed Muhammad
• Localización: Dialectologia, ISSN-e 2013-2247, Nº. 15, 2015, págs. 137-156
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This study discusses nasality and voicing in nonGstandard dialect of Malay i.e. Perak dialect (PD). As is widely claimed in previous Malay scholars, nasal substitution applies when there is a sequence of nasal and voiceless obstruent by no means to avoid the cluster from emerging in the surface representation. In this analysis, I argue that nasal substitution is not always applied in PD when there is a sequence of nasal and voiceless obstruent. The sequence is permitted to emerge rootGinternally in the dialect. In this analysis, I will also argue that nasal substitution is not only applied to voiceless obstruents, but it also applies to voiced obstruents after nasal segments. I suggest that the application of nasal substitution in both voiced and voiceless obstruents as occurred in the dialect is to satisfy CRISPGEDGE[s] which rules out candidates with both nasal and voiceless/voiced obstruent clusters in the surface representation.

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