KESAN PETUNJUK STRUKTUR DAN KONTEKS DALAM RESOLUSI KETAKSAAN KATA GANTI NAMA DIRI KETIGA DALAM KALANGAN PENUTUR MELAYU
This study investigates how native Malay speakers interpret the referent of the third-person pronoun dia in contexts of ambiguity. The research focuses on two primary objectives: identifying whether there is a default preference for the subject as referent, and evaluating the influence of cont...
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2025
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50419/1/Nurul%20Aqilah%20%28dsva%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50419/2/Nurul%20Aqilah%20%28Abstract%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50419/3/Nurul%20Aqilah%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50419/ |
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| Summary: | This study investigates how native Malay speakers interpret the referent of the third-person
pronoun dia in contexts of ambiguity. The research focuses on two primary objectives:
identifying whether there is a default preference for the subject as referent, and evaluating the
influence of contextual discourse cues on pronominal reference resolution. A total of 60 adult
native Malay speakers participated in a comprehension task involving ambiguous sentences
presented in three contextual conditions: neutral, subject-biased, and non-subject-biased. Data
were analysed using a generalised mixed effects model (GLMM) implemented in R. Findings
reveal a significant overall preference for the subject as referent across all conditions,
supporting the existence of a default syntactic strategy. However, contextual effects revealed
unexpected patterns: neutral contexts enhanced subject preference, subject-biased contexts
paradoxically reduced it, and non-subject-biased contexts had no significant effect. These
results challenge the predictions of the Referential Context Theory and suggest that pronominal
processing in Malay is shaped by linguistic features such as the absence of gender marking and
syntactic flexibility. The study highlights the need for reference resolution models that account
for cross-linguistic variability |
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