摘要：This paper re-examines the occurrence of nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters when monosyllabic and disyllabic/polysyllabic roots are combined with nasal final prefixes like /m..+/ and /p..+/. In Malay previous studies, a sequence of nasal and voiceless obstruent is not allowed in the surface representation. The clusters thus are regularly resolved by nasal substitution. Observation from the DBP-UKM (Malaysia Institute of Language and Literature-National University of Malaysia) corpus data however shows that nasal substitution somehow fails to apply to break up the clusters. Vowel epenthesis and nasal assimilation are also used as the strategies in the language. This paper claims that the different strategies of eliminating nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters are due to the etymology of the words. In order to analyse the data, the idea of lexical strata by It. and Mester (1999) and the version of Generalised Template Theory i.e. Morpheme-Based Template (Downing 2006) which is developed in Optimality theory are used.
关键词：nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters; nasal final prefixes; nasal ; substitution; prosodic morphology; OT
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