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 /mN-/ and /di-/ in Malay, two phonological alternations surface in the output forms, namely vowel lengthening (i.e. /di-pam/ [dipam] „to pump (passive)‟), and schwa epenthesis (i.e. /mN-...
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Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2011
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2645/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2645/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2645/1/zaharani011.pdf |