Pronunciation Features of Indonesian-Accented English

Abdi Rahmat Syam; Sheena Gardner; Michael Cribb

doi:10.3390/languages9060222

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 language	English
Article number	222
Number of pages	23
Journal	Languages
Volume	9
Issue number	6
Early online date	18 Jun 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060222
Publication status	Published - Jun 2024

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The work described in this paper was supported by a doctoral research grant awarded to the corresponding author by the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) Indonesia scholarship.

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Keywords

English as a second language
phonology
accented English
Indonesia

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