Abstract
This article is concerned with a study of pronunciation errors made by students of English Literature Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Sumatera Utara. The scope is limited to the study of error analysis in the pronunciation of English phonemes. The participants of this study were two students of the department with Acehnese background. In this study, the electronic software called Praat was used as an instrument in the analysis of speech sounds of the participants. The purpose of this study was to find out the dominant errors of the pronunciation of English phonemes made by the participants. The data were derived from the pronunciations of English phonemes which were recorded and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as in Katamba (1996: 13). The standard value of the pronunciation of English phonemes was adopted from Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. The quality of the pronunciations of the participants was described in graphs and the results were shown in percentage as given in tables and charts.
Highlights
Linguistics is the study of language systems and all their aspects: how it is structured, how it is acquired, how it is used in the production and comprehension of messages
The part of linguistics that is concerned with the structure of language is divided into a number of subfields such as: phonology phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics (Ogden, 2009)
It is a subfield of linguistics which focuses on how speech sounds are physically produced and received
Summary
Linguistics is the study of language systems and all their aspects: how it is structured, how it is acquired, how it is used in the production and comprehension of messages. The part of linguistics that is concerned with the structure of language is divided into a number of subfields such as: phonology (the study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects) phonetics (the study of speech sounds in their physical aspects), morphology (the study of the formation of words), syntax (the study of the formation of sentences), semantics (the study of meaning), and pragmatics (the study of language use) (Ogden, 2009). Language is a purely human way to communicate ideas, emotions, and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols. Speech is important to express ideas and emotions. These symbols are represented in the study of phonetics, how speech sounds are produced, what the properties of speech sounds are, and how we perceive speech
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