ALPHABET DELETION OF SEVERAL STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITAS PUTRA INDONESIA CIANJUR (PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY)
Abstract
This study aims to discover about one of the phonological processes called
deletion which is commonly experienced by several students at Universitas Putra
Indonesia, Cianjur. This research uses a descriptive qualitative research. This
study was committed by using writing test at Universitas Putra Indonesia Cianjur.
The main theory used for this study are taken from O‘Grady (1997) which particularly concerns about Psycholinguistics study, Walt Wolfram and Robert
Johnson (1982) which particularly concerns about phonological analysis. This
study found that students tend to deleting vowel sound instead of consonant
sound. Therefore, the writer concluded that the students at Universitas Putra
Indonesia Cianjur were often deleting the vowel sound instead of consonant
sound in their writing.
Keywords: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Deletion, English Linguistics, Writing
aspect.