Author:
Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati
Affiliation:
IAIN TULUNGAGUNG, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
syllable, structure, type, song, ESA, EFL
Abstract:
Syllable as one part of suprasegmental features is enacted as a crucial aspect of speech in learning English
sounds especially pronunciation and very different when they are uttered in daily interaction. This study aims
to probe and appraise the relation between structures and types of syllables in each formation of the song. The
data were analyzed using a descriptive qualitative involved 38 students at a higher institution in IAIN
Tulungagung. The research instruments used in the research are the subtitle of the song ‘Goodbye’ in the
English version by iKON, students’ practices, and interviews. The result of the study showed that there was
linguistic problem involves the analysis of types and components of a syllable (onset, rhyme, nucleus, and
coda) by considering the phonetic transcription and rank the sounds in syllable based on sonority hierarchy.
In addition, it was also highlighted that linguistically, English and Indonesian pertain to two divergent
language families.
By all means, the sound systems of two languages could alter enormously and for this
reason, the dilemma occurred in two close-mid and open-mid vowels /е/ and /a/ in (say), /æ/ and /e/ in (have)
and the use of different phonetic transcription of the vowel as the nucleus. The adjacent counterpart speech
sounds of /е/ and /a/ may lead to a positive transfer due to its similarity with the students’ mother tongue.
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