The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms
This paper examines the structure of Malay words, concentrating on simplex forms with no affixation, and analyses over 6,400 simplex forms extracted from a corpus of about 3M words of written Malay. Over 80% of simplex forms are found to fit a template of the structure CV(C)CVC. Examination of the...
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This paper examines the structure of Malay words, concentrating on simplex forms with no affixation, and analyses over 6,400 simplex forms extracted from a corpus of about 3M words of written Malay. Over 80% of simplex forms are found to fit a template of the structure CV(C)CVC. Examination of the templates links the widespread view that Malay has a ‘simple phonology’ to an inadequate separation of abstract lexical representations and acoustic events in speech waveforms, and the claim is made that this separation is the key to understanding contemporary dialect variation.
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| spelling | doaj-art-effdb0ee035443229831b54211d600e02024-11-25T18:59:41ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-06-01231The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex formsZuraidah Mohd. Don0University of Malaya This paper examines the structure of Malay words, concentrating on simplex forms with no affixation, and analyses over 6,400 simplex forms extracted from a corpus of about 3M words of written Malay. Over 80% of simplex forms are found to fit a template of the structure CV(C)CVC. Examination of the templates links the widespread view that Malay has a ‘simple phonology’ to an inadequate separation of abstract lexical representations and acoustic events in speech waveforms, and the claim is made that this separation is the key to understanding contemporary dialect variation. https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3287Malay, simplex forms, templates, corpus linguistics, phonology |
| spellingShingle | Zuraidah Mohd. Don The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms Journal of Modern Languages Malay, simplex forms, templates, corpus linguistics, phonology |
| title | The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms |
| title_full | The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms |
| title_short | The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms |
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| topic | Malay, simplex forms, templates, corpus linguistics, phonology |
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