An optimality analysis of dual-edge dependency in Malay dialects

Partial reduplication in Johor and Perak Malay exemplifies non local, dual-edge dependency and subsequent feature-changes. Reduplicative prefixes are determined by both left and right edge segments of a base, skipping intermediate segments. The dual-edge dependency and the subsequent feature change...

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Main Author: Sung-A Kim
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
Online Access:https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3752
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description Partial reduplication in Johor and Perak Malay exemplifies non local, dual-edge dependency and subsequent feature-changes. Reduplicative prefixes are determined by both left and right edge segments of a base, skipping intermediate segments. The dual-edge dependency and the subsequent feature changes are sufficiently unusual to merit serious investigation in that it provides a challenge to analyses in derivational frameworks. This paper presents a constraint-based account (McCarthy and Prince 1995; McCarthy 1995) which captures both aspects of these Malay reduplications as an interaction between faithfulness and phonotactic constraints. This paper shows that the unusual reduplicative pattern in these dialects can be successfully subsumed in a general pattern of reduplication under a constraint-based framework.
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spelling doaj-art-46e7b25372264104ab2e84fb9f50b7dc2024-11-25T18:59:14ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-07-01151An optimality analysis of dual-edge dependency in Malay dialectsSung-A Kim0Seowon University, South Korea Partial reduplication in Johor and Perak Malay exemplifies non local, dual-edge dependency and subsequent feature-changes. Reduplicative prefixes are determined by both left and right edge segments of a base, skipping intermediate segments. The dual-edge dependency and the subsequent feature changes are sufficiently unusual to merit serious investigation in that it provides a challenge to analyses in derivational frameworks. This paper presents a constraint-based account (McCarthy and Prince 1995; McCarthy 1995) which captures both aspects of these Malay reduplications as an interaction between faithfulness and phonotactic constraints. This paper shows that the unusual reduplicative pattern in these dialects can be successfully subsumed in a general pattern of reduplication under a constraint-based framework. https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3752
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An optimality analysis of dual-edge dependency in Malay dialects
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title An optimality analysis of dual-edge dependency in Malay dialects
title_full An optimality analysis of dual-edge dependency in Malay dialects
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