Sudarmanto, Sudarmanto (2007) A Comparative Study between Suprasegmental Features of The Speech Produced by the students of English Language and Letters Department of UIN Malang and those produced by the speakers in NST TOEFL. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Most languages around the world are transmitted through sound and one of the most obvious differences between languages is that they sound different. The difference of the sound system can be in term of pronunciation; stress, intonation, and pitch. As the sound system of language, stress, intonation, and pitch are covered by the term that is called as suprasegmental. Suprasegmental means above the segment. In some languages such stress differences can distinguish one word from another. Stress performs a function to help us to divide the continuous flow of speech into separate words. In addition, intonation is also can be used to indicate different type of utterance, such as statements and questions. Intonation is said to indicate the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, so that a sentence like “I think it’s time to go now” can be expressed in happy way, sad way, angry way, and so on.
As the comparative study, the formulation of the research question is; what are the differences and similarities between suprasegmental features produced by English native speakers and by English learners?
Study on suprasegmental features is closely related to human speech sound that is
uttered naturally. That’s why the design of this research is field research which the method that is used is descriptive comparative. The descriptive comparative study tries to find the similarities and differences between the object that is researched.
Considering that the design of this research is field research, so the data of this research are taken from the English learner utterance in form of sound. The English learner speech sound is as the object that is compared, while as the standard of comparison is English native speaker utterance that is taken from NST TOEFL.
There are two kinds of instrument that is used in analyzing data in this research. First is recorder. Recorder is used to get the data from the English learner speech sound. And the second is acoustic wave. In this case the researcher uses Gold Wave as the instrument to analyze the data in form of speech sounds. The input of the data in the gold wave is in the form of speech sound and the output is in form of graphic which consist of numbers that show the higher and the lower of amplitude of the speech sound.
The result of this research is in form of similarities and differences of intonation and stress between English native speaker utterance and English learner utterance. The differences of intonation and stress between English native speaker and English learner are larger than the similarities, it because the way how both English native speakers and English learners pronounce the words is different, English native speakers utter the words or sentences with juncture more frequently than English learners, and English native speakers also pronounce the words or sentences faster than English learners. In addition, the mother tongue of English learners is also considered as the aspect that influences the difference of the intonation and the stress.
The researcher suggests that the future researchers conduct similar theme of study
on suprasegmental features which are not covered in this research, such as; pitch, accent, rhythm, and tempo with more complete data and discussion
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Ahmadin, Dimjati | ||||||
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Keywords: | comparative study; suprasegmental features; the speech produced | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Moch. Nanda Indra Lexmana | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2023 15:01 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 15:01 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/44132 |
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