OPEN AND CLOSE ENDED WH QUESTIONS IN PENANG MALAY DIALECT

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Fazal Mohamed Mohamed Sultan, Assoc. Prof. Dr

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This paper discusses descriptively the patterns of use of wh question in Penang Malay dialect. The data are primary data that were accumulated from native speakers of the Malay Penang dialect. The villages are identified based on the GIS geographical grid drawn on the map based on a scale of 1:240. The drawn grids are totaled to 23 grid boxes. Each grid box is represented by a village. A total of ten respondents from each village were identified based on the criteria of NORMs. Respondents who speak mainly Penang Malay dialect were interviewed. Our analysis found that the wh questions of this dialect consists of apa, siapa, bila, berapa, pasai apa, awat, macam mana, lagu mana dan mana.. All the wh questions display a similar property where they can be located at all positions in a sentence:, the initial, medial and final position. This finding gives further support against the claim that wh words


Kertas kerja ini membincangkan persoalan pola kata soal terbuka dalam ayat soal dialek Pulau Pinang. Data kajian merupakan data primer yang dikutip daripada penutur natif dialek Pulau Pinang. Kawasan kampung dikenal pasti berpandukan grid geografi GIS yang telah dilakar dalam peta Pulau Pinang berpandukan skala 1:240. Hasil daripada lakaran itu sebanyak 23 kotak grid telah dihasilkan. Setiap kotak grid itu diwakili oleh sebuah kampung. Seramai 10 responden daripada setiap kampung telah dikenal pasti berpandukan kriteria NORMs. Data tersebut diperoleh melalui proses temu bual yang dilaksanakan terhadap responden yang menuturkan DPP.  Analisis deskriptif ini mendapati bahawa kata soal dialek Pulau Pinang terdiri daripada apa, siapa, bila, berapa, pasai apa, awat, macam mana, lagu mana dan mana. Semua kata soal ini pula mempunyai sifat yang sama iaitu boleh berkedudukan pada semua posisi ayat soal iaitu depan, tengah dan belakang ayat soal.

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Linguistic Studies