Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account

It has long been observed that the basic structure of the Malay syllable is (C)V(C) (Abdullah 1974, Yunus 1980, Farid 1980), allowing only a single segment to occupy constituents of the syllable. Although Malay may have single-member codas, there is a restriction in the language which prohibits a sm...

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Main Author:	Zaharani Ahmad
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2004
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/738/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/738/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/738/1/GemaVol4.2.2004No1.pdf

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spelling	ukm-7382016-12-14T06:28:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/738/ Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account Zaharani Ahmad, It has long been observed that the basic structure of the Malay syllable is (C)V(C) (Abdullah 1974, Yunus 1980, Farid 1980), allowing only a single segment to occupy constituents of the syllable. Although Malay may have single-member codas, there is a restriction in the language which prohibits a small class of consonants from occupying the coda position. In the phonological analysis of syllable structures, the prohibition of some segments in the coda is governed by the Syllable Coda Condition (Itofl 1986). The aim of this paper is to account for the effects of the Syllable Coda Condition in Malay, and the present analysis is couched in the constraint-based approach of Optimality Theory (henceforth OT) (Prince and Smolensky 2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993a,b). The paper is organised as follows. Section 2.0 outlines briefly the statement of the problem and section 3.0 demonstrates the process of syllabification within the OT framework. The effects of the Syllable Coda Condition which are analysed in terms of alignment constraint (Itofl and Mester 1994) is explored in section 4.0. Penerbit UKM 2004 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/738/1/GemaVol4.2.2004No1.pdf Zaharani Ahmad, (2004) Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 4 (2). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html
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description	It has long been observed that the basic structure of the Malay syllable is (C)V(C) (Abdullah 1974, Yunus 1980, Farid 1980), allowing only a single segment to occupy constituents of the syllable. Although Malay may have single-member codas, there is a restriction in the language which prohibits a small class of consonants from occupying the coda position. In the phonological analysis of syllable structures, the prohibition of some segments in the coda is governed by the Syllable Coda Condition (Itofl 1986). The aim of this paper is to account for the effects of the Syllable Coda Condition in Malay, and the present analysis is couched in the constraint-based approach of Optimality Theory (henceforth OT) (Prince and Smolensky 2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993a,b). The paper is organised as follows. Section 2.0 outlines briefly the statement of the problem and section 3.0 demonstrates the process of syllabification within the OT framework. The effects of the Syllable Coda Condition which are analysed in terms of alignment constraint (Itofl and Mester 1994) is explored in section 4.0.
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author_facet	Zaharani Ahmad,
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title	Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account
title_short	Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account
title_full	Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account
title_fullStr	Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account
title_full_unstemmed	Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account
title_sort	alignment and the syllable coda condition in malay: an optimality account
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2004
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Alignment and the syllable coda condition in Malay: an optimality account

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