A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PHONETIC REALIZATIONS OF THE PHONEME /h/ SPOKEN BY SPEAKERS OF WESTERN AND EASTERN DIALECT OF MADURESE

This study aims to compare the phoneme /h/ realization between two dialects of Madurese: Western and Eastern dialect. The writer conducted this research by using two perspectives. They are the phonetic measurement for the sibilant fricative /h/ that is the CoG numbers and the acoustic realization that are showed in Praat.
This study was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative method. The source of data in this study is the 12 participants: 6 participants from Western
dialect and 6 participants from Eastern dialect. The data are their utterances of the stimuli especially the position of the expected phoneme /h/.
Generally, the results of the research, the Eastern dialect has higher CoG than the Western dialect which means that the phoneme /h/ realization in the Eastern dialect is lower even no realization at all whereas the Western dialect contain the phoneme /h/ realization in different frequency based on the variables:
the gender, the age of interlocutor, and the phonological environments.