Speech Recognition Lamaholot Language Lamalera Dialect

Abstract

This chapter focuses mainly on the morphophonemic process in Lamaholot Language in the Lamalera Dialect. The smallest minimal meaningful elements in language are known are morphemes. So it is the alternation of the phonological shapes of a morpheme depending on the context it occurs in which is known as Morphophonemic alternation. This implies that this phenomena occurs in all languages. There are several intriguing differences between agglutinative languages and isolating, tonal, and inflecting languages, for instance, in terms of morphophonemic alternations. Lamaholot language is is not agglutinative, nor is it isolative (?) nor is it tonal. As a language characterized by neither agglutination, isolation nor tone, Lamaholot language has interesting morphophonemic phenomena to study. The morphophonemic processes in the Lamaholot language in the Lamalera dialect are elision or removing sounds, adding or inserting sounds, preserving sounds and changing sounds.  There are different types of sound: some are elided or removed, some are added or inserted, others are preserved, and some are changed by the inclusion of additional sounds. This distinction is made possible by the lack of verb affixes in Lamaholot as a method of morphophonemic modification.