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Mora Alignment And Multiple Foot Types In K’Ichee’, Rusty Barrett
Mora Alignment And Multiple Foot Types In K’Ichee’, Rusty Barrett
Linguistics Presentations
This paper presents an analysis of the stress system in the Nahualá dialect of K’ichee’ (a Mayan language spoken in Western Guatemala) and discusses the theoretical implications of K’ichee’ stress. In K’ichee’, quantity sensitivity is dependent on position within a word rather than syllable structure. The analysis of K’ichee’ suggests the need for a uniform analysis of foot structure within OT so that stress is always dependent on foot structure rather than syllable structure (with the effects of quantity sensitivity resulting from the equation of a foot with a single syllable). The proposed analysis is applied to the case of …
Penguasaan Tulisan Jawi Di Kalangan Pelajar Melayu : Suatu Kajian Khusus Di Uitm Cawangan Kelantan, Shahrizal Mahpol
Penguasaan Tulisan Jawi Di Kalangan Pelajar Melayu : Suatu Kajian Khusus Di Uitm Cawangan Kelantan, Shahrizal Mahpol
Student Works (2000-2009)
This academic study attempts to measure the level of achievement of Jawi among student's of UiTM Kelantan Campus. It also remains a question mark or the level of understanding among Malay students in general. Jawi originates from the Arabic alphabets . Its legacy was brought down to Malaya when Islam was first introduced. Its roofs was initially Arabic which was later customized to adapt the Malay culture and tradition. Jawi was not only used for literature purposes, more so it was practiced in the fine arts such as Khat which adorn mosques and decorate prayer halls (musalla). In this study …