This article pursues the idea of inferring aspects of phonological underlying forms directly from surface contrasts by looking at optimality theoretic linguistic systems (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). The main result proves that linguistic systems satisfying certain conditions have the faithful contrastive feature property: Whenever 2 distinct morphemes contrast on the surface in a particular...

This study is aimed at (1) describing the process of word formation using al-ziyaadah and affixation in Bugis Arabic, (2) revealing meaning forming a (3) analyzing similarities differences substances produced by affixations Arabic. The research applied library linguistic approach. primary data was collected identified through textbook; then, types affixes both languages were analyzed. forms tha...

Gundala (2019) is the latest Indonesian action film that was commercially successful, won national and international awards, even ranked second in viewership 2019. This study aims to identify genre characteristics of Gundala. paper utilized Nick Lacey's analysis, which analyzes films based on repertoire elements (narratives, characters, settings, iconography, styles). The research shows adopted...

This paper aims to investigate domain-specificity of SLI, by examining SLI children’s semantic knowledge through their intonation patterns for contrastive focus and prosodic boundaries. Our results revealed that 1) SLI children's placement of contrastive focus is comparable to that of normally developing children, 2) SLI children has wider pitch range than normally developing children, and 3) S...

This article aims at contrasting aspectual oppositions in English and Persian in the context of the novel The Old Man and the Sea, and its translation by Daryabandari (1983) as the data. Unlike English, in Persian perfective and imperfective forms are morphologically marked. While the vast majority of English simple past forms are translated into Persian by past perfective forms, only less than...