JEdu: Journal of English Education
Vol 1, No 2 (2021): JEdu: Journal of English Education

The Phonological Analysis of Russian Accent in the Way Back Movie by Peter Weir

Ahmad Zulfikar Adi Darma (Program of English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Indraprasta PGRI)
Siti Nurani (Program of English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Indraprasta PGRI)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Jul 2021

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. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jedu

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JEdu: Journal of English Education focused to publish high-quality articles dedicated to all aspects of the latest outstanding research and developments in the fields of English Education. The scope of this journal encompasses to study of English Education, Literature, Linguistics, and ...