Fenomena Pengglotisan dalam Bahasa Bugis di Malaysia.

This study discusses the phenomenon of glottalization in the Bugis minority language in Malaysia. Previous studies had claimed that the presence of glottal stops in the Bugis lexical is limited atword final position only. The claimhowever, poses a question of whether glottal stop only presents at word final position in this language. Thus, this study was conducted to confirm the position where the presence of glottal stop by identifying its presence in the lexical of this language as well as to describe the acoustic characteristics of the glottal stop at the positions where they have been identified. Data for this study were obtained from fieldworks which involved questionnaires, interviews, recordings and observations. A total of 100 informants who are native speakers of Bugis from Bugis villages located in Pontian and Pasir Gudang, Johor were interviewed. Spectographic analysis using Praat was made to confirm the presence of glottal stops in the lexical obtained. The results of the spectrographic analysis show that glottal stop presents in four positions in words, namely intial, middle and final word positions as well as at prefix boundaries, for examples, [?ika], [bu?kãŋ], [b?mbe?] and [mã?-keda]. The presence of glottal stop at these word positions exhibits different phonological processes. The results reveal the real phenomenon of glottal stop in Bugis language which has not yet been explored previously. Thus, this study provides new knowledge and perspectives on the distribution of glottal stops in the Bugis language. This study has given an opportunity to researchers to further dig and explore more linguistic phenomena that can be found in the Bugis language, as well as contributes to the preservation of this language so that it does not overwhelm by the modernization and can continue to be practiced by the younger generation in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]