A model of intonational phonology of Singapore Malay

• Main Author: Diyana Hamzah
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Phonology; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65974
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Intonation in Singapore Malay involves phrase-final rises, and an utterance-final rise-fall at the end of declaratives. The location of the utterance-final rise is dependent on the number of syllables of the final word. The peak is observably earlier in focused constituents and lowered in post-focus...