LIN231H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Word Formation, Prenasalized Consonant, Affix
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Background 1: the consonants of malagasy, a malayo-polynesian language spoken in. Madagascar, are displayed in table (6). 5 each column in table (6) represents a different place of articulation, and each row represents a different manner of articulation. So in the bilabial stop cell, [p] is voiceless and not prenasalized, [b] is voiced and not prenasalized, [mp] is voiceless and prenasalized, and [mb] is voiced and prenasalized. Background 2: in malagasy, there are many different reduplication processes that work the same way. What makes these processes different is their function: some create. Attenuated forms of adjectives, some create frequentative forms of verbs, some create. But a single reduplication rule can be used to describe each of these processes. > the effects of malagasy reduplication are displayed in (6). (in the transcriptions below, syllable boundaries are indicated with a dot. A high vertical line at the beginning of a syllable indicates that the syllable has primary stress.
