Problem Formulation Objectives of the Study
order to minimize the pronunciation of function words when they are unstressed. There are four types of cliticizations. First is auxiliary reduction, which means
that the auxiliaries are reduced to become the clitics of function words. The second is negative contraction, which means that the negator not is contracted into
n’t when attaching to the auxiliaries or modal verbs. Third is to- contraction,
which means that the word to is becoming the clitic of a certain verb. The to- contraction is rather complicated to be described, because it is argued that the
relation between wanna and want to must be syntactically wrong. Also, the lexicalization accounts of to-contraction are wrong, because wanna and hafta are
assumed to be synchronically unrelated to want and have. However, the phonological approach using the intonational phrase can relate the relevant data.
Moreover, the last type is pronominal clitics, which is pronounced in verb particle constructions and in dative constructions which behave like clitics. Pronominal
clitics are in the course of cliticizing. The study done by Kim analyzed clitics by their forms and suggested that
cliticization applies to the function words and is sensitive to some phonological factors such as stress and phonological boundaries rather than the trace-based
adjacency condition in the past. Phonological facts have been mistaken for syntactic ones. Those objectives are similar to the present study done by the
researcher. However, this research is to develop from the previous study. This research is different from the above study because this research is aimed at
explaining the cliticization not just by morphologically or phonologically but the combination of the two aspects, which is known as morphophonemic.