Slips of the Ear in Perceiving Indonesian in Quiet Situation
Saffanah Fathin (a*), Masitha A. Syukri (b)
a) a graduate from English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga
*saffathin[at]gmail.com
b) English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga
Jl. Airlangga No.4 - 6, Gubeng, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
Abstract
Slip of the ear refers to listeners- inability to perceive the intended messages of the speaker correctly. Noise can be a major factor in causing slips of the ear. However, even in quiet situation, slips of the ear still happen. This study aims to discover types of slips of the ear and find out the most frequent type appeared in perceiving Indonesian as first language. This study examines slips of the ear in quiet situation experienced by 30 students from Faculty of Humanities Universitas Airlangga. The data of slips of the ear used in this study were obtained from the data collection of Syukri (2015-2017). The writer uses Bond-s (2005) classification of slips of the ear, which are based on linguistic knowledge and consists of 14 types, to analyze the data qualitatively. The results showed that there are 5 types of slips of the ear appeared in quiet situation which include vowel misperception, consonant misperception, word boundary misperception, morphological misperception, and semantical misperception. The most dominant type of slips belongs to morphology misperception with the percentage of 47.46%. It is shown that bilingualism might affect listeners in perceiving speech in quiet situation.
Keywords: quiet; slips of the ear; speech perception
Topic: International Conference of English Language Teaching, Literature & Linguistics