MEASUREMENT OF THE HIGHEST VOWEL PITCH AND FORMANT USING PRAAT

Abstract

This study is aimed to analyze the measurements of pitch and formant values in determining the 
highest vowels which derived from the voices of native and non-native. Linguistically, this research was related to the phonetics and phonology, by applying PRAAT application to calculate the frequency and formant of speech. The subject of the study in this research was vowels contained in severalIndonesian words. The  focuses were only the element of pitch and formant of the fourth respondents in uttering the vowel-contained  words. The research method used in This study used the Forensic audio method. However, in this study,  researchers only focus on identifying pitch and formants in the data to be analyzed. In addition, the data wa  descriptive analysis with the presentation of data in the form of numerical tables and graphs. This study involved one native researcher and one non-native researcher to get comparable results. Data retrieval method conducted PRAAT with audio files as the main data source. The results of this study indicated that diphthongs with the highest pitch values from both native and non-native respondents was / a/. Based on the sampling of sound data from two respondents, it could be concluded that vowel /a / had the highest frequency compared to other vowels And, / a / had the highest formant number compared to other vowels.