Prosodic Features of East Acehnese Dialect Based on Age Factor: An Experimental Phonetic Study

Abstract

This study analyzed the prosodic features of East Acehnese dialect speech act, based on age factor of the speaker through Acoustic Phonetic Theory by using Praat Program. The target of this study was the directive speech in the form of command and offer. The findings of this study is that the speech tone of directive speech kapurono seudati ke jih based on basic tone, final tone, high tone, low tone, and temporal duration, uttered by the teenage informant is higher than that uttered by the adult informant. On the contrary , the speech tone of directive sentence tagun keumamah ke lon siat based on basic tone, final tone, low tone, and temporal duration, uttered by the adult informant is higher than that uttered by the teenage informant. Only in high tone, the speech tone uttered by the adult informant is lower than that uttered by the teenage informant. The duration of utterance uttered by teenage informant is longer than that uttered by the adult informant.