Intonational phonology and prosodic hierarchy in Malay

• Main Authors: Hamzah, Diyana, German, James Sneed
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105884; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24072; http://www.researchgate.net/publication/265847789_Intonational_Phonology_and_Prosodic_Hierarchy_in_Malay
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents original data in support of a new model of intonational phonology for Malay as spoken in Singapore. Building on the Autosegmental-Metrical approach (Beckman & Pierrehumbert, 1986), we propose that intonational variation in Malay can be explained in terms of underl...