An instrumental analysis of oral monophthongs in Aceh Barat dialect of Acehnese

Tanzir Masykar, Roni Agusmaniza, Nurul Taflihati Masykar, Febri Nurrahmi

Abstract


As among the ten most spoken languages, Acehnese inevitably has many varieties. Many previous studies on Acehnese have been heavily conducted on the northern varieties of Acehnese, leaving other Acehnese varieties unexplored. Pase dialect of Acehnese has been described to have oral and nasal monophthongs and diphthongs, but no studies on Aceh Barat dialect phonetic features of Acehnese have been made. Aceh Barat dialect has also been stigmatized as being rough and vulgar in the previous study. Thus, the current study aims to explore the instrumental analysis of Acehnese oral monophthongs by Aceh Barat speakers. Three male speakers (aged 35-50 years old) speaking only Acehnese as the local language participated in the current study. The ten Acehnese words used to target the ten phonemes were adapted from study. A total of 90 tokens of Acehnese oral vowels production were analyzed using PRAAT version 6.1.29. The oral monophthongs of the Aceh Barat dialect are generally similar to the previous study on the Pase dialect. Exception emerges for the vowel /ʌ/ and /ə/, which seems to be produced differently across the speakers. Both vowels appear to stretch further down the vowel space closer to the back vowels /u/ and / ɔ/, respectively.


Keywords


Aceh Barat dialect; Acehnese oral vowels; Acehnese varieties

Full Text:

PDF

References


Abdullah, W., Abdullah, F. S. i., Faridah, H. B., & Husni, T. (2010). Peulajaran Basa Aceh Keu Murip Glah VIII SMP/MTs [Acehnese Language Textbook for Public/Religious Junior High School Students Grade 8]. Global Educational Consultant Institute.

Al-Harbi, A. A. A.-A. (2003). Acehnese coda condition: An optimality-theoretic account. Umm Al-Qura University Journal of Educational and Social Sciences and Humanities, 15(1), 9-28. http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/604

Asyik, A. G. (1987). A contextual grammar of Acehnese. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan dissertation. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Aziz, Z. (2015). A sociolinguistic investigation of Acehnese with a focus on West Acehnese: a stigmatised dialect. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/92352

Boesarma, P., & Weenink, D. (2020). PRAAT: Doing Phonetics by Computer. In http://www.praat.org/

Bongaerts, T., van Summeren, C., Planken, B., & Schils, E. (1997). Age and ultimate attainment in the pronunciation of a foreign language. Studies in second language acquisition, 447-465. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44487989

Burgos, P., Cucchiarini, C., van Hout, R., & Strik, H. (2014). Phonology acquisition in Spanish learners of Dutch: Error patterns in pronunciation. Language Sciences, 41, 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2013.08.015

Deterding, D. (2003). An instrumental study of the monophthong vowels of Singapore English. English World-Wide, 24(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.24.1.02det

Deterding, D., Wong, J., & Kirkpatrick, A. (2008). The pronunciation of Hong Kong English. English World-Wide, 29(2), 148-175. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.29.2.03det

Durie, M. (1985). A grammar of Acehnese on the basis of a dialect of North Aceh. Foris Publications.

Hayward, K. (2013). Experimental phonetics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315842059

Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing: An Introduction. Routledge.

Kemendikbud. (2020). Sejarah singkat Teuku Umar Pahlawan Nasional dari Aceh. https://kebudayaan.kemdikbud.go.id/bpcbaceh/sejarah-singkat-teuku-umar-yang-di-gelar-sebagai-johan-pahlawan/

Low, E.-L. (2016). Phonological patterning for English as a lingua franca in Asia: Implications for norms and practice in multilingual Asia. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 5(2), 309-332. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2016-0022

Masykar, T. (2019). Analisa kebutuhan English for specific purpose untuk pendidikan vokasi. VOCATECH: Vocational Education and Technology Journal, 1(1), 47-50. https://doi.org/10.38038/vocatech.v1i0.9

Masykar, T., & Nurrahmi, F. (2020). Motivation and satisfaction towards two-year vocational diploma. Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi, 10(1), 10-21. https://doi.org/10.21831/jpv.v10i1.30123

Nucifera, P. (2018). Diftong dalam Bahasa Aceh Penelitian pada Masyarakat Penutur Asli Bahasa Aceh di Desa Meunasah Reudeup Kabupaten Bireun, Aceh. Jurnal Samudra Bahasa, 1(1), 15-22. https://www.ejurnalunsam.id/index.php/JSB/article/view/977

Pillai, S., & Yusuf, Y. Q. (2012). An instrumental analysis of Acehnese oral vowels. Language and Linguistics, 13, 1029-1050. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1525426105?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true

Raditya, I. N. (2019). Sejarah 11 Februari 1899: Kronik Gugurnya Teuku Umar. https://tirto.id/sejarah-11-februari-1899-kronik-gugurnya-teuku-umar-dgFF

Sulaiman, B., Jusuf, H., Hanum, S., Lani, R. C., & Ali, Z. (1977). Struktur Bahasa Aceh (Lanjutan)[Acehnese Structure (Advanced)]. Banda Aceh: Depdikbud.

Yusuf, Q., & Pillai, S. (2013). An acoustic description of diphthongs in two varieties of acehnese. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 21, 153-158. http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/pjssh/browse/special-issue?article=JSSH-0732-2012

Yusuf, Y. Q., & Pillai, S. (2016). An instrumental study of oral vowels in the Kedah variety of Acehnese. Language Sciences, 54, 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2015.09.001

Zainuddin, H. (1961). Tarich Atjeh dan Nusantara (Vol. 1). Pustaka Iskandar Muda.

Zwicker, E., & Terhardt, E. (1980). Analytical expressions for criticalâ€band rate and critical bandwidth as a function of frequency. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68(5), 1523-1525. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.385079




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/e.6.2.383-396

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2021 Febri Nurrahmi, Tanzir Masykar, Roni Agusmaniza, Nurul Taflihati Masykar

License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/