A study of focus and accent in Singapore Malay
The syntactic focus-marking, like clefting, in Malay is limited to certain focus contexts. Hence, this motivates the belief that Malay adopts other strategies of focus-marking. Cross-linguistic research has provided ample evidence of intonation used as a focus-marking strategy, including Indonesian....
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95408 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9430 |