Acoustic Measurements of the Acehnese Monophthong Vowels by Young Male and Female Pidienese Speakers

Fajar Fitrian, Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf, Faisal Mustafa

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This acoustic study aims to describe the characteristics of the Acehnese oral monophthong vowels produced by male and female Pidienese speakers of Acehnese in the Pidie dialect. It employs a purposive sampling technique to select ten respondents, consisting of five male and five female Pidienese speakers, to generate ten target words, which are dit, peut, cut, pét, tet, pôt, cèt, göt, top, and pat. The data are elicited from the speakers by recording target words containing ten monophthong vowels, which are /i/, /ɯ/, /u/, /e/, /ə/, /o/, /ɛ/, /ʌ/, /ɔ/, and /a/. Each vowel's F1 and F2 were analyzed using PRAAT version 6.0.37 to determine their qualities. The Hertz measurements were converted to Bark scales through Excel, and vowel positions in the vowel space were generated. The vowel space indicates that male speakers produce their monophthong vowels higher and further back, whereas female speakers produce their vowels lower and less spread in the vowel space. This is due to gender differences, which leads to tract differences between male and female speakers. This research has described the monopthong vowels produced by the Pidienese speakers, and this documentation can be beneficial for future studies in dialectology and linguistics.

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Acehnese; acoustic analysis; oral monophthongs; Pidie dialect

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