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Article

Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English

by
Abdi Rahmat Syam
*,
Sheena Gardner
and
Michael Cribb
Centre for Arts Memory and Communities, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 2NE, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Languages 2024, 9(6), 222; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222
Submission received: 25 September 2023 / Revised: 22 May 2024 / Accepted: 7 June 2024 / Published: 18 June 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Investigating L2 Phonological Acquisition from Different Perspectives)
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Abstract

English as a Lingua Franca is emerging in Indonesia, but it is not a well-documented variety. This paper aims to describe the pronunciation features of Indonesian-Accented English (IAE). Fifty educated Indonesians who were regular users of English were recorded reading two texts. The phonological features of consonants, clusters, and vowels were investigated through acoustic analysis and spectrographic observation. The results show that IAE is not predictable from contrastive Indonesian English analyses; that IAE may confuse listeners (e.g., if ‘she’ is realised as [si:]); and that speakers may regularly produce sounds at the beginning of words that they do not produce at the ends of words.
Keywords: English as a second language; phonology; accented English; Indonesia English as a second language; phonology; accented English; Indonesia

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Syam, A.R.; Gardner, S.; Cribb, M. Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English. Languages 2024, 9, 222. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222

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Syam AR, Gardner S, Cribb M. Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English. Languages. 2024; 9(6):222. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222

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Syam, Abdi Rahmat, Sheena Gardner, and Michael Cribb. 2024. "Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English" Languages 9, no. 6: 222. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222

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Syam, A. R., Gardner, S., & Cribb, M. (2024). Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English. Languages, 9(6), 222. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222

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