20 as aspirated sounds. Usually, English consonants which are pronounced with
aspiration are the voiceless consonants like: p, t, k, and t ʃ. But according to
the pronunciation in the video by President Joko Widodo as a Javanese person, the aspiration happens in the voiced consonants.
2. Vowels
Variations of pronunciation for vowel sounds are more complicated than pronunciation variations for consonant sounds, because in vowel sounds, one
vowel can change in more than one variants. But basically, President Joko Widodo pronounced many words literally as the written form. For example, the
word „water‟ is literally pronounced as watər, instead of wɔ:təɹ. So does the word „area‟ which was pronounced as area, instead of eriə. Besides that, there
are also words which are pronounced similarly like the Indonesian version. For example the wor
d „cement‟. In Indonesian, the Indonesian of „cement‟ is „semen‟. So, President Joko Widodo pronounced it as s
əmen, instead of sɪment.
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CHAPTER III CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter is divided into two parts, which called as conclusions and recommendations. Conclusions cover the summary of major findings to the
previous research question: “What are the pronunciation variations in Indonesian
President‟s APEC CEO Summit 2014 speech as being compared to Standard English pronunciation?
” In addition, recommendations cover the benefits for language learners, language teachers or lecturers, and also for the future
researchers.
A. Conclusions
This part summarizes the major findings of the research about phenomenon of pronunciation variations. The analysis of this research focused on
pronunciation variations that occurred in Indonesian President‟s English speech at APEC CEO Summit 2014 in Beijing. The research intended to analyze the
pronunciation variations of English speech which is influenced by Javanese accent, because the Indonesian President as the speaker, is a Javanese.
As the answer to the previous research question: “What are the
pronunciation variations in Indonesian President‟s APEC CEO Summit 2014 speech as being compared to Standard English pronunciation?
”, the findings of this research show several pronunciation variations. They are divided into
consonant sounds and vowel sounds. There are five consonant sound deletions,
