Front Vowel Central Vowel
is i letter. The words do not have ai letters so that the announcer do not produce the diphthong [aɪ] but [ɪ].
However, in the word five, one announcer pronounced one of the diphthong [aɪ] as [e]. By this means the announcers actually had already known
that the i letter in this case is pronounced as [aɪ]. The announcers had failed to
learn when they should pronounce the letter i into diphthong [aɪ] or [ɪ].
There are another list of some mispronounced words in the diphthong [eɪ]. From the data, it can be seen that almost all of [eɪ] sound is changed into [e].
The announcers had known that the letter a in the word often be pronounced as [ei]. However, while pronouncing the words, they pronounced them fast so that
reducing the [ɪ] sound. Some of them also mispronounced it as [ɑ], [æ], and [ʌ]. In this case, the announcers only focused on the text not the sounds. They did not try
to figure what sound stands for the word. From the data before we can see that almost some announcers ever
changed the diphthong [ju] into an [u]. It is because the announcers only see the letter u in the word. There is no indication that the announcers should
pronounce it as [ju]. However, in the word universal, one announcer pronounced the diphthong [ju] into [ʌ]. The announcer might assumed that it is similar to the
word uninstall, undo, unpack, and the other preffix un-. In the words uninstall, undo, and unpack the prefix un-
is pronounced as [ʌn] so that the announcer conclude that in the word universal
, it should be pronounced as [ʌn], too. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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