An Aspect of Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Malay

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An Aspect of Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Malay: Sun, Pei-Ran¹, Chung, Chin-Wan^1*; ¹Jeonbuk National University

28 February 2023. pp. 431-450

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Abstract

This study focuses on vowel hiatus resolution strategies in Malay in different environments: within roots, at the prefix-stem, and stem-suffix boundaries. Malay adopts glide and glottal stop insertion, glide formation, and diphthongization as repair strategies. Epenthesis of glides occurs after high vowels. A glottal stop is epenthesized between identical vowels, after a low vowel, or at the prefix-stem(root) boundary. Glide formation applies to intervocalic high vowels, a high in a vowel sequence initiating or within a root. The root domain allows all vowel hiatus-avoiding strategies. However, only glottal stop insertion occurs at the prefix-stem(root) boundary, while glottal stop and glide insertions occur at the stem(root)-suffix boundary. A constraint-based account can capture these asymmetrical applications of vowel hiatus resolution strategies with a unified constraint ranking. The analysis also shows the functional unity of constraints to bypass the undesirable vowel sequences in Malay.

Keywords

vowel hiatus

repair strategies

asymmetrical application

constraint ranking

morphological boundaries

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Publisher :The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국현대언어학회
Journal Title :The Journal of Studies in Language
Journal Title(Ko) :언어연구
Volume : 38
No :4
Pages :431-450
DOI :https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.38.4.202302.431

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