The symmetrical architecture of Malay simplex forms
This paper examines the structure of Malay words, concentrating on simplex forms with no affixation, and analyses over 6,400 simplex forms extracted from a corpus of about 3M words of written Malay. Over 80% of simplex forms are found to fit a template of the structure CV(C)CVC. Examination of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaya
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Modern Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://samudera.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3287 |