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Excerpt 3.1
One day that goat felt frisk and fine Ate three red shirts, right off the line
The man he grabbed him by the back
And tied him to a railroad track
Rhodes 1994, p. 276 in his article mentions that track, trip, drive, and drag
are the examples of words possessing onset tr-dr- whose purpose is to describe simple paths or a set of actions verb. In spite of this, the word track in
the last line of Excerpt 3.1 functions differently, not as described by Rhodes’
theory. It is preceded by the words a and railroad forming a specific context. As a result, it does not refer to a particular action verb, but
“the pair of long metal bars fixed on the ground at an equal distance from each other, along which trains
travel” “Track”. In brief, the word track in Excerpt 3.1 constitutes a special term for describing a way on which trains run noun.
Even though this research was conducted as a qualitative research with descriptive data, which means its data were collected in the words forms Bogdan
Biklen, 2003, p. 5, the researcher provided a column for the frequency record of sound symbolic occurrences. Numbers put in the column were not the primary
research data, but aimed to be supporting data. The next step of data analysis was to explain the function of each sound
symbolic word found in lullabies and play songs. It was important to provide a list of sound symbolic words along with their functions because it could avoid a
complicated discussion in the following chapter. Table 3.3 was created as a research instrument to meet the aforementioned purpose.
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Table 3.3 List of Sound Symbolic Words in Lullabies Play Songs LULLABIES PLAY SONGS
No. Word
Phonetic Transcription
Number of Occurrence
Song No. Sound
Symbolism Category
Function
1. 2.
3.
Table 3.3 contains more detailed information related to the sound symbolic words obtained previously. The researcher determined to use this table
to bring systematic explanation of each sound symbolic word’s function in representing something. Every sound symbolic word was presented along with its
phonetic transcription in US version taken from Cambridge Dictionary online version, and several words which were not available in the dictionary were
transcribe manually. Each function of the entire words was derived from several dictionaries; those were the Third Ed
ition of Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
electronic version, Oxford Dictionaries online version, Merriam- Webster
online version, and Dictionary.com online version.