A Study of Phonological Processes In Madurese Found In Pojok Madura news.

This study focuses on the phonological processes found in Pojok Madura
news. This study focuses to identify the categories of phonological processes
found in Pojok Madura news and to identify the types of syllable structure where
phonological processes occur.
This study was conducted by using a qualitative research. The data of this
study were taken from Pojok Madura news. The method of data collection was
content analysis. It has several steps: the first step was downloading and listening;
the second step was taking a notes; the third step was classifying and the last step
was making several codes. The method of analyzing data is containing data
collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion.
In the finding, the writer found 30 data in Pojok Madura news. The data
was classified into three categories. For epenthesis, 4 data belong to glottal
insertion, 3 data belong to j-epenthesis and 3 data belong to glide epenthesis. For
gemination, 7 data belong to gemination of adding suffix –na and 9 data belong to
gemination of adding suffix –aghi. For deletion, 4 data belong to open syllable
that has three syllables or more. The phonological processes occurs in the
following syllable structure. For epenthesis, 3 data belong to VC pattern, 6 data
belong CVC pattern and 1 data belong to CCVC pattern. For gemination, 2 data
belong to VC pattern and 14 data belong to CVC pattern. For deletion 4 data
belong to CCV pattern.

Key words: Phonological Processes, Categories of Phonological Processes,

The Syllable Structure in Madurese