The Phonology Of Voiceless And Voiced Palato-al Veolar Fricatives IJ! And l3l Of Malaysian Learners Of English With Mandarin Background

• Main Author: Kam, Su-Yin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: P221 Phonology and Phonetics
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/30285/1/KAM_SU_YIN.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/30285/

Kajian berbentuk eksplorasi tentang Frikatif Lelangit-Gusi yang tidak bersuara IS! dan yang bersuara 131 ini dilakukan terhadap tiga puluh (30) pelajar Bahasa Inggeris daripada latarbelakang Mandarin di sebuah kolej swasta. Objektif kajian ini tennasuklah: mengenalpasti varian serta pola varian yang dihasilkan oleh subjek kajian, pola fonologi serta keupayaan subjek mengenalpasti kedua-dua fonim sasaran yang dikaji yakni lSI dan 131. This study is an exploratory investigation of the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative IJI and the voiced palato-alveolar fricative 131 sounds concerning thirty (30) subjects who are English learners with Mandarin background and are studying in a selected local private college. The objectives of this study are to establish the possible variants produced by the subjects, the patterns of occurrences of the variants, the phonological patterns of the variants and the ability of the subjects in distinguishing the· two target phonemes of !JI and /3f.