1. Asimilasi Homorganik Nasal Dialek Melayu Saribas (Homorganic Nasal Assimilation in Saribas Malay Dialect)
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Noor Azureen Hamid @ Ahmed and Sharifah Raihan Syed Jaafar
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Linguistics and Language ,Geography ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Assimilation (phonology) ,language ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Malay - Abstract
Dialek Melayu Saribas merupakan salah satu sub dialek utama dialek Melayu Sarawak yang dipertuturkan di Malaysia timur. Dialek Melayu Saribas memperlihatkan tingkah laku fonologi yang agak berbeza berbanding dialek-dialek Melayu di Malaysia. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menghuraikan asimilasi homorganik nasal di sempadan awalan dialek Melayu Saribas. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan mengaplikasikan kaedah-kaedah dalam kajian lapangan, iaitu kaedah senarai kata, temu bual dan rakaman audio. Pengumpulan data linguistik dialek Melayu Saribas diperoleh daripada sepuluh orang penutur asli dialek Melayu Saribas di Saratok, Sarawak. Data linguistik dialek Melayu Saribas dianalisis berlandaskan geometri fitur Halle (1995). Dapatan kajian mendapati imbuhan awalan dialek Melayu Saribas ialah nasal velar /ŋ/. Imbuhan awalan /ŋ/ sentiasa berasimilasi dengan konsonan obstruen dan likuida kata akar yang mengikutinya untuk membentuk asimilasi homorganik nasal. Data dialek Melayu Saribas menggambarkan dua perilaku asimilasi homorganik nasal di sempadan awalan, iaitu asimilasi separa dan asimilasi total. Asimilasi homorganik nasal menyebabkan segmen bersebelahan berkongsi titik artikulasi yang sama. Interaksi fonologi ini menggambarkan asimilasi homorganik nasal adalah bersifat sensitif kepada penyebaran fitur, iaitu kecenderungan segmen untuk menguasai segmen bersebelahan dengan menyebarkan fiturnya dan membentuk segmen yang mempunyai identiti yang serupa dengannya. Penelitian asimilasi homorganik nasal dalam dialek Melayu Saribas memberikan implikasi sebagai nilai tambah kepada kajian terdahulu selain sebagai perintis ke arah pembangunan penyelidikan ilmiah yang lebih praktikal dan komprehensif. Kata kunci: asimilasi homorganik nasal; konsonan nasal velar; sempadan awalan; fitur distingtif; geometri fitur ABSTRACT Saribas Malay dialect is one of the main sub-dialects of the Sarawak Malay dialect spoken in East Malaysia. Saribas Malay dialect is distinctly different to the regional Malay dialect in Malaysia. The aim of this study is to explain the homorganic nasal assimilation of prefix boundary in Saribas Malay dialect. This study applied a qualitative research approach and fieldwork methods, such as word lists, interviews, and audio recording. The data gathered from ten native speakers of Saribas Malay dialect in Saratok, Sarawak. These linguistic data analysis is based on Halle’s geometry features (1995). The prefix boundary of Saribas Malay dialect is velar nasal /ŋ/. The prefix /ŋ/ always assimilate to the following obstruent and liquid of the root, to form a homorganic nasal assimilation. Saribas Malay dialect data shows two types of homorganic nasal assimilation in prefix boundary; partial and total assimilation. Homorganic nasal assimilation cause adjacent segments to share the same point of articulation. This interaction reflects that homorganic nasal assimilation is sensitive to the feature spreading, whereby there is a tendency to dominate the adjacent segment and spread its features to form a segment with similar identities. The implications of this study provide an added value to the previous studies in Saribas Malay phonological dialect. Therefore, this study contributes to the development of phonological knowledge in the Saribas Malay dialect and can be a pioneer for a practical scientific research and comprehensive study. Keywords: homorganic nasal assimilation; velar nasal; prefix boundary; distinctive features; feature geometry
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- 2017