Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English, Cordova Public College
Student Research
Ian Pogoy Petallar, et al. Cordova Public College petallarian.cte.cpc@gmail.com One of the newly popular regional varieties of Philippine English that reflects the majority of the Visayas, and parts of Mindanao is Cebuano English. The primary objective of this study is to determine the phonological features of Cebuano-Visayan English, specifically the vowels, consonants, diphthongs, stress, and intonation patterns, to contribute to the body of literature. The study employed a descriptive auditory analysis on the recorded speech samples of 15 Grade 7 Junior High School students from Babag National High School, Babag 1, Lapu-Lapu City who were chosen through purposive sampling. The speech samples were transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and English teacher experts’ validation on the transcriptions was sought. The findings revealed that there is vowel sound substitution on the /ɪ/ to /i/, /i/ to /ɪ/, /ɛ/ to /i/, /ɪ/ or /eɪ/, /æ/ to /a/, /ͻ/ to /oʊw/, /ɜr/ to /ͻ/ or /i/, and /ʊ/ to /u/; the diphthongs are converted to monophthong such as /eɪ/ to /i/, /e/ or /ɛ/ and /oʊ/ to /u/ or /ʊ/; consonant sounds are substituted such as /v/ to /b/, /f/ to /p/, /z/ to /s/, /θ/ to /t/, and /ð/ to /d/; word stress is syllable-based; intonation patterns is described as very little similarity to General American English speakers. Additionally, it was found that the influence of the learners first language on their second language communication skills are the Cebuano language system, substitutions of segmental sounds, cultural influence, environmental influence, and code switching and mixing. Also, the data showed that age 12 and females among participants had the highest number of common segmental sounds substitutions in pronouncing English words. These results enhanced the phonological features of Cebuano English and confirmed earlier findings. Hence, the data of the study can be used by higher education institutions to realize that is not to push students sounding like an English native speaker, but to embrace, recognize and use the learned Cebuano English, counting this our own variety of Philippine English.
phonological features, Cebuano-Visayan English, Grade 7 students
Cordova Public College
[1] I. P. PETALLAR et al., “PRESENCE OF CEBUANO ENGLISH ON GRADE 7 PRONUNCIATION,” unpublished student research, Cordova Public College, 2024.
