28 Korean Speakers Accuracy on Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives

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3. Korean Speakers Accuracy on Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives

Within Single Words The following table shows the accuracy of Korean singer pronouncing voiceless labiodental fricatives withing single words This group is divided into 6 types of words based on the position of the sound. Table 4.7: The Accuracy of f within Single Words No Classifications Total Accurate Inaccurate Words word groups Appearance Num. Num. 1 f in syllable initial 40 92 81 88 11 12 2 f in syllable initial cluster 11 33 30 91 3 9 3 f in syllable final 10 29 17 59 12 41 4 f in syllable final cluster 2 2 1 50 1 50 5 f as ambisyllabic sound 1 1 1 100 6 f in double position 1 3 2 67 1 33 TOTAL 65 160 132

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17.5 In table the accuracy of f within single words, the final number showed f in single word was produced accurately in more a half of total number. It had high number which reached 82.5. While, the inaccuracy number only reach 17.5 or equal to 28 performances. Starting from the f in the initial syllable, there were 92 performances. From the total number, 81 performances were produced accurately, whereas 11 performances were inaccurate. If the number was served in percentage, the accurate number reached 88, which was vepy good grade, and the inaccurate number reached 12. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 54 Some example of f in the initial of the first syllable or in word initial, such as famine fæmin , feel fiːl , fall fɔːl , and fop fɔːʳ . Sound within the two earlier appeared words were pronounced accurately as femen and fɪl . While, the next words, fall and fop, were produced both accurately fɒl and fɒ , and fɒr and fɒ , and inaccurately as pɒl and pɒ . Then, the second position is second syllable initial, such as godfopsaken gɒdfəseɪkən and unfopgettable ʌnfəgetəbl . The first word was produced accurately as gʌdfɒsekən , whereas the second one was inaccurately as ɒmpogerəbə . The next positions are both in the beginning of the first or second syllable within one word, fulfill fʊlfɪl which is pronounced as same as the standard pronunciation. The next sub-type is f within consonant cluster in the initial of the syllable. From the total appearances, 33 performances, 30 were accurate and 3 were inaccurate. In percentage, the accurate number impressively reached 91, whereas the inaccurate number reached 9. Those numbers showed that Korean speakers attained high grade, vepy good, in this type. Consonant cluster in the syllable initial has three position, in the first syllable, second syllable, and third syllable. For giving the clear explanation, example will be given for each position. Starting from the initial word, there were fpee friː and fpiend frend which were pronounced as frɪ and pren . Then, the second syllable, there was only one word, peflected rɪflektɪd which was produced inaccurately as ripektə . The third syllable brought dpagonfly drægənflaɪ and PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 55 buttepfly bʌtəflaɪ with accurate f sound production, drʌgofrʌ and bʌtəfraɪ . Though the sound can be pronounced, the combination of consonant or consonant cluster still find difficulty to be produced. For example, the word fpee will be fɪ or the word fpom will be fɒm. Then, the third one is f in syllable final. From total 29 performances, there were 17 performances or 59 were accurate and 12 or 41 were inaccurate. Here, some example of this type, staff stɑːf was pronounced as stʌf , life laɪf as laɪp , laɪ and laɪf , aftep ɑːftəʳ as æftər , and enough ɪnʌf as ɪnaʊ , ɪnʌ , and ɪnʌf . In the next sub-type, f in syllable final cluster, there were 2 performance that could be seen. The example of this sub-type were puffs pʌfs which was pronounced as pərəf and myself maɪself as maɪsep . We could see that f in the first could be pronounced accurately by omitting another sound within cluster, whereas the next word omitted all the sound in cluster and replaced them with p. Besides, the next sub type, f which was sounded in the end of syllable but to be geminated into the following syllable, or ambisyllabic sound was produced accurately. This sound moved into the next syllable as in the word diffepent dɪfərənt which was pronounced as dɪfən . The in the next sub-type, f in both initial and final position, the sound could be produced accurately. This sub-type had f in initial and final of the first syllable, for example fifteenth fɪftiːnθ which was pronounced as fɪf.ɪ , fɪftɪ , PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 56 and fɪptɪ . The sound f in this sub-type actually could be produced accurately, but there was still difficulty for f in the end syllable as showed by the third phonetic transcription.

4. Korean Speakers Accuracy on Voiceless Labiodental Fricatives