Confirmation Talk on 23rd July 2010

1. THE PROSODY OF KELANTAN MALAY: The Case of Initial Geminate Consonants Hilmi Hamzah Supervisors: Associate Professor Janet Fletcher Professor John Hajek THE PROSODY OF KELANTAN MALAY: The Case of Initial Geminate Consonants CONFIRMATION TALK

3. THE STORY OF MY FIRST-YEAR PhD LIFE & THE FOUR STAGES

4. 1st STAGE: GETTING LOST

6. PROSODIC HIERARCHY (Pierrehumbert & Beckman, 1998)

8. 2nd STAGE: GETTING FOUND

19. 3rd STAGE: GETTING EXCITED

22. TOKENS

29. DURATIONAL RATIOS

30. DURATIONAL RATIOS

32. GENDER – Singleton Consonant

33. GENDER – Geminate Consonant

34. EFFECT OF GENDER

36. VOWEL HEIGHT – Singleton Consonant

37. VOWEL HEIGHT – Geminate Consonant

38. EFFECT OF VOWEL HEIGHT

40. EFFECT OF MANNER OF ARTICULATION

42. 4th STAGE: GETTING CONFIRMED