Stress Patterns In Compound Nouns And Noun Phrases Produced By English Department Students Of Pgri Univeristy Of Yogyakarta 2014/2015

This research is intended to find out the stress variation patterns in compounds and phrases produced by English Department Students (English-L2). It is conducted by analyzing the production of English compounds and phrases The respondents of this study are 10 students of English Department (PBI-UPY). PRAAT software is applied to analyse the recordings, including measuring the pitch of each word, the highest pitch indicates the primary or strongest stress in each word. The instruments of this study are 5 English compounds and 5 English phrases which are visualy identical. The result shows that English-L2 produce inappropriate stress pattern in English compounds and phrases. Most English-L2 are not able to distinguish between compound and phrase, they commonly stress the last syllables of the compound noun instead of the first