Sharifah Kharidah Syed Muhammad
This study discusses nasality and voicing in nonGstandard dialect of Malay i.e. Perak dialect (PD). As is widely claimed in previous Malay scholars, nasal substitution applies when there is a sequence of nasal and voiceless obstruent by no means to avoid the cluster from emerging in the surface representation. In this analysis, I argue that nasal substitution is not always applied in PD when there is a sequence of nasal and voiceless obstruent. The sequence is permitted to emerge rootGinternally in the dialect. In this analysis, I will also argue that nasal substitution is not only applied to voiceless obstruents, but it also applies to voiced obstruents after nasal segments. I suggest that the application of nasal substitution in both voiced and voiceless obstruents as occurred in the dialect is to satisfy CRISPGEDGE[s] which rules out candidates with both nasal and voiceless/voiced obstruent clusters in the surface representation.
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