Front Vowel Vowel Sounds
E Initial
- Middle
- Final
- F
Initial -
Middle -
Final -
G Initial
- Middle
- Final
- H
Initial -
5.13 Middle
- Final
2 15.38
I Initial
- 2.56
Middle -
Final 1
7.69 J
Initial -
1.96 Middle
1 5.88
Final -
From the data above, it can be seen that there were five announcers who did not
mispronounced [ɪ] into any other sound. Five other announcers mispronounced the sound not until 10.
From all the words which contain [ɪ] sound, the researcher summed the mispronunciation list. The data are listed in the
table below.
Table 4.13 Mispronunci
ation of [ɪ] Word Lists
Words IPA
Notes
film [f
ɪlm]
1 announcer pronounced it into [e]. thriller
[θrɪlər]
- 1 announcer pronounced it into [aɪ]. - 1 announcer pronounced it into [e].
figure [f
ɪɡə]
1 announcer pronounced it into [ju]. release
[r
ɪliːs]
- 1 announcer pronounced it into [e]. - 1 announcer pronounced it into [ɜ:].
The third front vowel mispronunciation is the mid front vowel [e]. [e] appears three times in the initial position, eight times in the middle position, and
four times in the final position. The data are listed in the table below. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Table 4.14 Mispronunciation of [e]
Announcer Sound
Position Frequency
Percentage Total
Percentage
A Initial
- 8.33
Middle 2
25 Final
- B
Initial -
4.17 Middle
1 12.5
Final -
C Initial
1 33.33
11.11 Middle
- Final
- D
Initial -
Middle -
Final -
E Initial
- Middle
- Final
- F
Initial -
Middle -
Final -
G Initial
1 33.33
11.11 Middle
- Final
- H
Initial -
Middle -
Final -
I Initial
- 4.17
Middle 1
12.5 Final
- J
Initial -
8.33 Middle
- Final
1 25
There are four announcers who did not mispronounced the vowel [e]. Announcer C and G made one mispronunciation when [e] appears in the first
position of the syllable. Announcer A mispronounced [e] twice in the middle position while Announcer B and I mispronounced it once. Last, Announcer J was
the only announcer who made mispronunciation in the final position. The list of the mispronunciation words are shown in the table below.
Table 4.15 Mispronunciation of [e] Word Lists
Words IPA
Notes
Ever [e
və] 2 announcers pronounced it into [
ɪ]. blessed
[bles
ɪd] 1 announcer pronounced it into [eɪ]. Said
[sed] 3 announcers pronounced it into [e
ɪ].
The last one is low front vowel [æ]. [æ] appears in initial position once and in the middle position twice. There were two announcers who mispronounced
the sound [æ]. Announcer F mispronounced one [æ] in the initial position into [e].
It appears in the word action [æ
kʃən]. Another one is announcer G who
mispronounced all [æ] sounds in the word franchise [fræ
nʧaɪz] into [ʌ].