THE “ALGORITHM” FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM OUTPUT IN SUHAID SOUND SYSTEM

Suhaid language is spoken in Western Kalimantan (Indonesia). This language consists of an aspirated occlusive voice which is derived from the deletion of /ə/ in the penultimate syllable position. The deletion of schwa and the forming of C+h will leave a floating mora, μ. This mora will attach to the immediate vowel and form a vowel lengthening. Based on Optimality analysis, the constraint *GEM (Consonant geminate is prohibited) plays a crucial role in terms of constraint satisfaction and violation. The candidate with geminate consonant will be ruled out as it fatally violate *GEM, in the set of rankings: *GEM >> MAX-C >> MAX-IO[μ] >> *COMPLEX >> MAX-V >> *LV >> PrWd=FT-BIN. Although this paper is related implicitly with science and technology fields, its concept has consolidated the general spirit of Tsear (2004)'s study on computing optimal form of a language.