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5. Orang itu guru saya. (122)
2- 33r/ 2- 3 1 *
Person that teacher I
' That person is my teacher.'
6. Guru saya orang itu. (123)
2-. 3 2f/2- 11 *
Teacher I person that
'It is my teacher, that is what that person is.'
Note that the primary data used in Halim's study were
the language as spoken by the author and his family, that
is, the Indonesian as spoken in Palembang. The mingographic
graphs in his dissertation show that words in his dialect
are stressed on the penultimate. That is the reason that the
word saya in (5) has a high pitch on the syllable sa~,
instead of on the last syllable -ya., as in some other
dialects, such as the Indonesian spoken in Aceh or
Minangkabau. This high-low pattern remains the same when the
word order is inverted. Because of this high-low pattern of
word stress, the drop of intonation from predicate phrase to
the subject phrase is not so sharp in Halim's dialect. If
the data had been taken from a speaker whose mother tongue
is Acehnese, the intonation pattern would have been
different. It is very likely that instead of 232f/211, the
pattern is 223/111, which conforms with Durie's description.
Secondly, if we compare the order VO le-A and the order
that begins with the A ("agent"), that is AVO, the latter