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Reduplicative Opacity in Malay Revisited: Preliminary Phonetic Evidence for Variable "Recopying" and BRCT

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper reports new acoustic documentation of the interaction between nasal spreading and reduplication in Malay. Our preliminary findings confirm the existence of the putative recopying pattern reported by Onn (1976), but as part of a system of free variation. We supplement McCarthy & Prince (1995)’s Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory (BRCT) analysis of this pattern with partially-ordered constraints (Anttila, 1997) in order to account for the observed variation. The confirmation of the recopying pattern in Malay bolsters the argument for the inclusion of BR correspondence in reduplicative theory, as alternative serialist theories cannot generate this type of pattern.

Source: University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst

DOI: 10.7275/amphonology.3016

Authors: Jian-Leat Siah, Sam Zukoff, Feng-fan Hsieh

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, National Tsing Hua University

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6958951122

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