Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English

Abdi Rahmat Syam, Sheena Gardner, Michael Cribb

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number222
Number of pages23
JournalLanguages
Volume9
Issue number6
Early online date18 Jun 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2024

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Keywords

  • English as a second language
  • phonology
  • accented English
  • Indonesia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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