Abstract
Many speakers around the world have their own way in pronouncing English words as International language. The unique way in pronouncing English words is called accent. This research aims at analyzing the deviances on segmental vowel quality and quantity made by the Russian speaker in The Way Back movie by Peter Weir regarding to English short and long vowels in Russian accent. The research method was descriptive qualitative method. The research data was collected from converted audio of The Way Back Movie by Peter Weir. The data was then trimmed, selected and extracted by Praat software analysis. The results show that the Russian speaker makes deviances in pronouncing English vowel quality and vowel quantity. The total amount of deviances is 169 deviances which are divided into three classifications; those are segmental vowel quality, combinatorial quality and segmental vowel quantity deviances. The deviance that is mostly made by the Russian speaker is segmental vowel quality deviance, whereas the deviance that is rarely made by the Russian speaker is combinatorial vowel quality.
Highlights
IntroductionThe language, which is frequently used in international communication is English language
The analysis of different pronunciation between Russian and English accent in this research is correlated to the amount of segmental mispronunciations in vowel quality and quantity based on the theory from Anderson-Hsieh et al (1992)
After analyzing the data, some conclusions are drawn as the followings: 1. The vowel quality deviances of the Russian accent compared to English accent in The
Summary
The language, which is frequently used in international communication is English language. English has become the widest spread language in the world. In the course of its spread, English has diversified by the local circumstances and cultures, there are different varieties and accents of English in every country. English has different accents from different geographical places. Differences of accent, on the other hand, are of in the pronunciation differences only. The differences arise from a variety of causes, such as the time in which they grew up, the area in which they live, their early influences, social class, social surroundings, their level of education, and there are individual peculiarities for which it is difficult or impossible to account” (Nurani and Rosyada, 2015:109)
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