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data. Then, the words or the word groups which contain tense vowels, diphthongs, and liquids were inserted in the wordsword
groups’ column. There were the other columns to show the standard phonetic transcription and the variation phonetic
transcription which is produced by the Japanese singer. The standard phonetic transcription refers to the phonetic transcription which is showed in the eighth
edition of the Oxford for Advanced Learners Dictionary. The following is the table used to collect the data.
Table 3.1. Sounds Production
No. Word Word Group
Phonetic Transcription Standard
Variation 1.
2. 3.
…
The findings were single words or word groups. Word group in this research refers to a kind of group which has random combination. It did not create fixed
phrase, such as adjective phrase, noun phrase, and so on. It contained various type of words, such as combination of noun verb, verb article, and many others. These
word groups were employed to see the combination of sound not the meaning.
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E. Data Analysis Technique
There are two research problems in this research. Those two research problems were answered by using document analysis. The first thing to do, the
researcher transcribed the word or word group from the lyrics of the song in the standard phonetic transcription. Since the researcher only focused the sounds on
tense vowels and liquids, the words were grouped into three major groups which were words or word groups with tense vowels, words or word groups with
diphthongs, and words and word groups with liquids. The phonetic transcriptions then were inserted in the sounds production table.
The next step was analyzing the process of pronunciation done by the Japanese singer when producing English words containing tense vowels and liquids.
The researcher watched and listened to the word or word groups containing tense vowels and liquids sound produced by the Japanese singer in the live-performance
video. The researcher also asked one colleague who also understands the linguistic to observe the videos. It aimed to confirm the findings of pronunciation process in
the videos. After that, those English words were transcribed in the phonetic transcription as the words are produced by the singer and they were inserted in the
table of variation phonetic transcription. After inserting the phonetic transcription, the researcher found the differences between the standard phonetic transcription and
the variation. From the differences, the researcher described the process of pronunciation of the Japanese singer when producing tense vowels, diphthongs, and
liquids by relating the theories how the process of pronouncing the tense vowels, diphthongs, and liquids are with the pronunciation produced by the Japanese singer.
