In the Chapter IV, the researcher will show the sounds which are
mispronounced by the announcers. Some data will be put in the table. The table consists of the list of announcers, the sound position in the syllable if the sound
appears in more than one position, the mispronunciation frequency, and the mispronunciation percentage.
The mispronunciation percentage of each sound position will be formulated as below:
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Later, the researcher will show the mispronunciation total percentage. The total percentage will be taken as the formulation below:
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To support the data recording and analysis, the writer used a pair of Skullcandy Ando headset with a microphone, a Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit
Dell Inspiron 3442 and Western Digital Elements SE 500GB Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive as the data mass storage, also Voice Recorder Version 20.1.81-16 in
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
In this chapter, the researcher shares the data taken from Radio Masdha announcers. The researcher will divide this chapter into two main parts based on
the problem formulation. The first is about the list of mispronunciation sounds made by Radio Masdha announcers. The researcher will list what sounds
mispronounced by each announcer. The second is about some possible reasons which create mispronunciations. The researcher will conduct why the announcers
mispronounced the sounds. There are 10 ten announcers who did a recording. The news given to
the announcers can be seen in Appendix 4: News
. The news’s transcription can be seen in
Appendix 5: News’s Phonetic Transcription. The summary of the
announcers
’ pronunciation can be seen in Appendix 7: Mispronunciation Summary. In the recording, there is no mispronunciation of [b], [p], [m], [w], [n],
[r], [l], [k], [ŋ], [f], [u:], [ʊ], [aʊ], and [ɔɪ].
A. Announcers’ Mispronounced Sounds
1. Consonant Sounds
a. Labiodental Fricative
There are two sounds in the labiodental fricative. [v] is the voiced labiodental fricative and [f] is the voiceless labiodental fricative. In producing [f],
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in the initial position nine times and in the final position three times. The data can be seen in the table below.
Table 4.1 Mispronunciation of [v]
Announcer Sound
Position Frequency
Percentage Total
Percentage
A Initial
1 11.11
5.56 Final
- B
Initial -
Final -
C Initial
- Final
- D
Initial -
Final -
E Initial
- Final
- F
Initial -
50 Final
3 100
G Initial
1 11.11
55.56 Final
3 100
H Initial
- Final
- I
Initial 1
11.11 5.56
Final -
J Initial
- Final
-
From the data above, it can be concluded that six announcers did not make any mispronunciation. From the data, it can also be seen that almost two
announcers mispronounced all of [v] sound which appears in the final position into [f] and three announcers mispronounced it in the initial position.
The word contained [v] which is mispronounced by Announcer F and G is five [fa
ɪv]. Both Announcer A and G mispronounced one if the word seven [sev
ən] in the news. Last, Announcer I mispronounced [v] into [f] in the word previous
[priːviəs]. The list of the mispronunciation words can be seen in the Table 4.2.
Table 4.2 Mispronunciation of [v] into [f] Word Lists
Words IPA
Notes
previous [pri:v
iəs] Mispronounced by one announcer. five
[faɪv]
Mispronounced by two announcers. seven
[sev
ən] Mispronounced by two announcers.
b. Dental Fricative
The first dental fricative sound is [ð]. It is included in the voiced dental fricative. In the news, [ð] only appears in the initial position. It appears 16 times.
[ð] appears in the word the [ð ǝ], or [ðɪ] if it is followed by vowel sounds. There
were some announcers who mispronounced [ð] into [d]. The data are listed in the table below.
Table 4.3 Mispronunciation of [ð]
Announcer Frequency
Total Percentage
A -
B -
C -
D 8
50 E
16 100
F 16
100 G
16 100
H 3
18.75 I
- J
-
There were five announcers who did not make any mispronunciation. Then, there was one announcers which the mispronunciation equals to 18.75
and one equals to 50. Last, there were three announcers who mispronounced all [ð] into [d].
