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 58

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

From the data, the researcher may conclude that the Radio Masdha announcers still made some mispronunciation in delivering English news. Based on the analysis, the consonant sounds that are often mispronounced by the announcers are [v], [ ð], [θ], [d], [t], [z], [l], [ʃ], [ɡ], and [ʧ]. The most often mispronunciation is [ð] mispronunciation into [d]. It equals to 36.88. The second is [v] into [f] for 31.07. It is continued by [θ] into [t] for 25. The fourth is [ʧ] into [s] which equals to 20. Then, it is followed by [z] into [s] which is 16.67. The mispronunciation of [ ʃ] into [s], [ɡ] into [ʒ], and [ʧ] into [f] equal to 5. This mispronunciation of [t] into [s] equals to 1.14 . In the mispronunciation of [d], both changing into [n] and [s] equal to 0.18. The least mispronunciation in the consonant is in the sound [l] which was mispronounced into [r]. It equals to 0.14. The vowel sounds which are mispronounced are [i], [ ɪ], [æ], [ə], [ɔ], and [ ɒ]. In the mispronunciation of [i], the announcers changed into [e] for 6.23. Last, there were 2.5 mispronunciation of [æ] into [e] and 5 into [ ʌ]. Furthermore, the diphthong sounds which are mispronounced are [ əʊ], [e ɪ], [aɪ], and [ju]. In producing [aɪ], there were 1.11 mispronunciation into [e] and 6.66 into [ ɪ]. In the diphthong [eɪ], the mispronunciations were 0.83 into [ ɪ], 5.28 into [e], also 0.83 for each mispronunciation into [æ] and [a]. The last one is the mispronunciation of [ju]. Its mispronunciation into [ ʌ] equals to 0.33 and into [u] equals to 15.