Stress Production of Compound Words by English Students of State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta in The Year 2011

This research is focused on linguistics field, phonology and phonetics, and especially on analyzing stress production of compound words. Furthermore, the aims of this research are to find out the intensity which reflect to the used effort of students? pronunciation and the understanding of stress placement among students in pronouncing the tested words. To reach the objective of the research, descriptive method is used in this research. Test also used as an instrument of this research. Additionally, an acoustics helping tool, Praat, is used to record, to count the intensity and to see whether the stress placement is correct or not. Moreover, to analyze the data, Ilse Lehiste?s theory about suprasegmental feature, especially stress is applied as the main reference of the research. There are also supporting theories to uphold this research?s idea. Peter Roach and Charles W. Kreidler gave the list of examples of compound words. As the result of the study, it could be concluded that neither English Letters Department students nor English Education Department students had lack quality in producing stress as suprasegmental feature. It could be seen from their intensity (effort) when pronouncing each syllable of each compound words. In addition, most of them misplaced the stress placement and there also appeared a syllable break on students? pronunciation which indicate a hesitation of pronouncing compound word