Are Indonesians sensitive to contrastive accentuation below the word level?
It is impossible in Indonesian to express narrow-focus meta-linguistic contrasts on subparts of words (whether meaningless syllables or meaningful morphemes). In English and Dutch this possibility exists, as in I meant coffin not coffer or I said meaningful not meaningless. We predict from this circ...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
2009-10-01
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| Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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| Online Access: | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol11/iss2/2 |