Sound Addition The Types of English Sound Change of ELESP Students of Victory

48 Table 4. 4 The Words Classified as Fusion Types of Sound Change Words Oxford Dictionary Longman Dictionary Students’ Pronunciation Fusion Also [ɔ:ls əʊ] [ɔ:ls əʊ] [olso] About [ əbaʊt] [ əbaʊt] [ əbot] Don’t [d əʊnt] [d əʊnt] [don] Noticed [n əʊtisd] [n əʊtisd] [notais] Only [ əʊnlɪ] [ əʊnlɪ] [onlɪ] Progress [pr əʊgres] [pr əʊgres] [progres] Spoken [sp əʊkən] [sp əʊkən] [spok ən] Telephone [telɪf əʊn] [telɪf əʊn] [telepon] Won’t [w əʊnt] [w əʊnt] [won] Table 4.4 shows nine words that underwent two cases of blending two separate sounds to become a single sound. When two sounds are changed to bcome one in the process of fusion, some of the features of one sound and some of the features of the other sound are taken and a new sound is produced that is different from both, yet which also shares some features of both of the original sound Crowley, 1992, p. 47. Based on the definition given by Crowley, the researcher found two examples in this research. First, the mid central vowel [ ə] was blended with high back rounded vowel [ʊ] and produced the mid back rounded vowel [o] as in also [ɔ:ls əʊ]  [olso], don’t [dəʊnt]  [don], noticed [nəʊtisd] [notais], only [əʊnlɪ] [won], progress [pr əʊgres]  [progres], spoken [spəʊkən]  [spokən], telephone [telɪf əʊn] [telepon], and won’t [wəʊnt]  won]. Second, the low back rounded vowel [a] blended with high back rounded vowel [ʊ] and produced mid back rounded [o] as in about [ əbaʊt]  49 [ əbot]. The combination of the sound [əʊ], and [ɪə] according to Yulia and Ena 2004 did not exist in the Indonesian sound system. This caused the problem for Indonesian speakers to pronounce those kinds of sounds combination. Ur 1999 mentions that a particular sound may not exist in the mother tongue, so that the learner is not used to forming it and therefore tends to substitute the nearest equivalence he knows.

4. Unpacking

The forth type of sound change was unpacking which refers to the process of separating a single original sound into two sounds. In this research, the researcher found two examples of unpacking sound change. They were ilustrated as follow. Table 4. 5 The Words Classified as Unpacking Types of Sound Change Words Oxford Dictionary Longman Dictionary Students’ Pronunciation Unpacking Because [bɪkɒz] [bɪkɒz] [bɪkaʊs] Learn [lɜ:n] [lɜ:n] [le ə ʳn] Crowley 1992 states that unpacking is the change from a single original sound to become a sequence of two sounds with some of the features of the original sound p. 48. Therefore, the researcher found two examples of unpacking that happened in the word because [bɪkɒz]  [bɪkaʊs] and learn [lɜ:n]  [le ə ʳn]. In this process the first sound [ɒ] had changed into [aʊ] sound. Sound [ɒ] is a low back rounded vowel. [ɒ] sound was distributed over two sounds [a] which