A Study On The Phonological Featuresof Kelantanese Students' Pronunciation Of English Consonants

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This study aims to describe the phonological features of Kelantanese students' pronunciation of English consonants. It is an attempt to find the similarities and differences between the Kelantanese students' pronunciation, those who have learnt phonetics and phonology,and those who have not. To elicit data for this study, six Kelantanese students are chosen; three undergraduates of TESL 10students in their third year and another three students from a course not related to linguistics.They will be interviewed on specific themes and recorded in order to analyse their realization of specific phonemes.This paper will concentrate on four specific phonetic phenomenon, the production of two plosives and two fricatives specifically involving the alveolar and dental production mechanism.The analysis seeks to find the possible influence of the first language in the pronunciation of students who are aware of phonetics and phonology.