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In initial position, there were three words used by the researcher. The words are ‘them’, ‘they’, and ‘that’. The result of these analyses
showed 14 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as bellow: Two participants made all sound shifts in initial position.
Three participants made two sound shifts in initial position. Two participants made a sound shift in initial position.
In medial position, there were three words used by the researcher. The words are ‘other’, ‘lather’, and ‘rather’. The result of these
analyses showed 16 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as bellows:
Two participants made all sound shifts in medial position. Two participants made two sound shifts in medial position.
Six participants made a sound shift in medial position. In final position, there were three words used by the researcher.
The words are ‘breathe’, ‘loathe’, and ‘clothe’. The result of these
analyses showed 34 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as bellow:
Nine participants made all sound shifts in final position. A participant made two sound shifts in final position.
Four participants made a sound shift in final position.
1.12. Phoneme θ
There are nine words used by this research to study phoneme θ. Each word consists of phoneme θ in initial, medial, and final
positions. All the words read by 20 Javanese learners of English. The result of the collected the data showed that
totally 180 phoneme θ that pronounced by the participants, there were 67 sound shifts. These sound
shifts were divided into 3 positions; initial, medial, and final positions. In initial position, there were three words used by the researcher.
The words are ‘thank’, ‘thin’, and ‘thumb’. The result of these analyses showed 14 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as bellow:
4 participants made all sound shifts in medial position. 2 participants made a sound shift in medial position.
In medial position, there were three words used by the researcher. The words are
‘author’, ‘athlete’, and ‘antheme’. The result of these analyses showed 18 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as
bellow: 5 participants made all sound shifts in medial position.
3 participants made a sound shift in medial position. In final position, there were three words used by the researcher.
The words are ‘path’, ‘growth’, and ‘cloth’. The result of these analyses
showed 35 sound shifts. The researcher found the data as bellow: 10 participants made all sound shifts in medial position.
A participant made 2 sound shifts in medial position. 3 participants made a sound shift in medial position.
1.13. Phoneme s
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There are nine words used by this research to study phoneme s. Each word consists of phoneme s in initial, medial, and final position.
All the words read by 20 Javanese learners of English. The result of the collected the data showed that totally 180 phoneme s that pronounced
by the participants were clear.
1.14. Phoneme z
There are nine words used by this research to study phoneme z. Each word consists of phoneme z in initial, medial, and final
positions. All the words read by 20 Javanese learners of English. The result of the collected the data showed that totally 180 phoneme z that
pronounced by the participants, there were a lot of sound shifts. Totally 110 sound shifts, but only in medial and final position, because the
participants pronounced phoneme z clearly when it located in initial.
In initial position, there was no problem. The participants have pronounced the words of ‘zero’, ‘zinc’, and ‘zeal’ clearly. But in the
medial position, from totally 60 sounds that pronounced by the participants, there were 50 sound shifts. There were three words used
by the researcher. The words are ‘resign’, ‘reservation’, and ‘positive’. For more information, looked the data bellow:
Twelve participants made all sound shifts in medial position. Six participants made two sound shifts in medial position.
Two participants made a sound shift in medial position. In final position, there were three words used by the researcher.
The words are ‘excuse’, ‘abuse’, and ‘please’. The result of these analyse showed 60 sound shifts, it means that there were no participants
that pronounced clearly.
1.15. Phoneme ʃ
