An Analysis of Pronunciation of the Nasal Sound /n/ Followed by the Bilabial Nasal Consonant /m/ at Indonesian Japanese Learners

Rike Febriyanti; Nurica Virdaus

doi:10.15294/chie.v10i2.58230

Rike Febriyanti Universitas Brawijaya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1380-2091
Nurica Virdaus Universitas Brawijaya

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15294/chie.v10i2.58230

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out how the pronunciation of the nasal sound /ɴ/was followed by the nasal bilabial consonant /m/ by Indonesian Japanese learners. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. This research data is in the form of audio recordings of 13 students learning Japanese at Brawijaya University, which is compared with the pronunciation of the same sentence in the Suzuki-kun feature in OJAD. The analysis results found sound assimilation (on'in datsuraku), so the nasal sound produced in the middle of the vocabulary was the nasal bilabial /m/. The presence of sound assimilation causes the duration when pronouncing the nasal bilabial /m/to be quite long, with a duration range of /m/ 0.121208 – 0.161208 seconds. The nasal sound is produced if it is seen from the presence or absence of the insertion of /ɴ/. The duration, it is found in the pronunciation of [kammoɴ] and [semmenʑo], respectively, that 3 out of 13 students agree with the pronunciation of OJAD, while in the pronunciation of [ kiɕokɯmammeɴ], only 1 in 13 students qualified. So it can be said that students still tend to pronounce the nasal sound /ɴ/ followed by the nasal bilabial sound /m/ with a nasal sound other than the bilabial /m/.

Keywords :

Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Jepang
Japanese Education Journal
Japanese Nasal Sound
Bilabial Nasal Consonant
Japanese Language Education

Author Biographies

Rike Febriyanti, Universitas Brawijaya

Rike Febriyanti is Japanese Language teacher who is keen in conducting research on Japanese as Foreign Language field. Furthermore, she is focusing her research in error analysis and applied phonology in Japanese Language Teaching aspects. Meanwhile she completed her undergraduate education in Japanese Language Department of Surabaya State University in 2004. Then she continued her study at Prefectural University of Kumamoto to gain Master of Art in Teaching Japanese for Foreign Learners. She had been teaching Japanese Language in Diploma 3 Program in Japanese Language from 2005 to 2009. Besides, she had been teaching Japanese Language in Japanese Literature Department of Brawijaya University from 2007 – 2011. Starting from 2014 to present, she is teaching Japanese Language in Undergraduate Program of Japanese Language Education at Brawijaya University. Besides teaching Japanese Language in previously mentioned departments, she works as Japanese, Indonesian and English translator and interpreter in various fields.

Nurica Virdaus, Universitas Brawijaya

Undergraduate student of Japanese Language Education, Brawijaya University.