Android-Based "Idea Bank" Application as Media E-Learning in Courses Change Management

During this time for change management lectures, it is still often conveyed by the method of lectures and group discussions on cases of change in the industry and its management. Idea Bank application will be expected to be a reference for students to pour ideas of change, try to design changes, keep documentation of the implementation of changes they make, so that the idea of changes and innovations made by students in this application later may also be useful for the State University of Malang, because during this time the tasks carried out by students are more often stored in hard copy, or soft copy personally by lecturers who foster the subject.The purpose of developing e-learning media in change management courses in the form of android-based "idea bank" application is to create more innovative electronic learning media and provide more interactive learning media to students in accordance with the millennial era they live in.Learning tools developed in the form of Electronic Learning Media Applications stored on HP Android can be installed through the Play Store labeled "Idea Bank", where in it there will be several features namely problem portrait feature, Idea Change feature, Idea Design feature, theory change feature, Idea Succes feature, and some electronic program tools, including save menu, table data filling menu, upload documentation and others.The development method is Borg & Gall development model (1996) using water fall flow at the development stage. Stages of development ranging from needs analysis, product planning, product development, trial / implementation (validation), revision and report creation.Product results in the form of Idea Bank Application in the form of problem portrait feature, Idea Change feature, Idea Design feature, theory change feature Idea Succes Feature. stored on HP Android and also application usage tutorial.Keywords: Application; Idea Bank; E-learning.

Theoretical Models Testing for Examining Permissible Onset Sequences in Jordanian Urban Arabic

Languages differ as to which sounds are permissible to combine to form onset sequences. The aim of this article is to test two versions of the theory of sonority hierarchy to examine to what extent that they can make correct predictions about permissible onset sequences in Jordanian urban Arabic. It also aims at testing articulator-based feature theory to examine its capability to account for permissible onset sequences in the language in question. Findings of the study have shown that the sonority theory seems to fail to predict some occurring onset sequences in Jordanian urban Arabic and to make wrong predictions about some other missing sequences. Some sequences violate the minimal sonority distance, but they are found in Jordanian urban Arabic while some other sequences satisfy the minimal sonority distance, but they are not found in this language. The results have also shown that the articulator-based feature theory fails to account for permissible onset sequences in Jordanian urban Arabic.

Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Integration: A Study of English Consonant Cluster at Onset

This study examines the process of vowel epenthesis used by the Punjabi speakers to integrate the English consonant cluster at onset position of the syllable. English and Punjabi are two different phonological system where English allows consonant cluster and complex consonants at onset while Punjabi only allows complex consonants. Hence for the integration of syllables with consonant cluster, Punjabi speakers have to insert a vowel to make the consonant configuration according to Punjabi phonotactics. The data for this study are collected from recordings of focus group discussions, interviews and video clips. The data are analyzed by using CV phonology and Distinct Feature theory. The results suggest that Punjabi speakers insert vowels to modify the English consonant clusters according to Punjabi phonological environment. Thus, they add another vowel node and resyllabify the consonant clusters. The mid central /ə/ vowel is the default epenthetic vowel while in some cases /e/ is also used before the consonant clusters.

Chain effects in Kurpian

This article considers chain effects in Kurpian. It is observed that initial i triggers j-Insertion. The inserted [j] induces a lowering process, whereby /i/ changes into [e] or [ə], depending on the context. This change destroys the original trigger of j-Insertion, making the process opaque, as in jënteres [jəntɛrɛs] ‘interest’, which exhibits the following chain: i → ji → jə . I argue that chain effects cannot be modeled in Standard Optimality Theory, including its auxiliary theories: Max Feature theory, Sympathy theory and Candidate Chains theory. Consequently, chain effects constitute evidence for derivational levels envisaged by Derivational Optimality Theory. In particular j-Insertion must take place before /i/ is turned into [e] or [ə] because these vowels cannot trigger glide insertion.

The Sound System of Baghdadi Arabic in the Light of Distinctive Feature Theory

This paper is an attempt to look at the sound system of Baghdadi Arabic in view of the Distinctive Feature Theory, in order to see how far such a theory would be applicable to the language variety being dealt with in this paper. The main purpose ,here, is to see how far is it possible to group the sounds of Baghdadi Arabic into classes according to their phonetic (distinctive) properties. Thus, on one hand, the paper is meant to deal with the sounds of Baghdadi Arabic in terms of Trubetzkoy's distinctive oppositions, using the method of contrasting the classes of sounds according to such oppositions.

Denasalisation in the spoken French of Ijebu undergraduate French learners in selected universities in south West of Nigeria

Denasalisation is a lexical phenomenon brought into play during the process of lexicalisation while nasalisation is a natural process which occurs when an oral sound is modified in the environment of an adjacent nasal sound. Little attention is paid to the former because phonologists admit that nasalisation is more natural during speech production. This paper, therefore, examined denasalisation in the spoken French of 50 Ijebu Undergraduate French Learners (IUFLs) in Selected Universities in South West of Nigeria with a view to establishing instances of denasalisation in their spoken French. Data collection for this study was through tape-recording of participants’ production of 30 sentences containing French vowel and consonant sounds. Goldsmith’s Autosegmental phonology blended with distinctive feature theory was used to analyse instances of denasalisation in the data collected. The study revealed instances of denasalisation of nasal sounds at initial and final positions in the spoken French of the IUFLs.Keywords: IUFLs, Denasalisation, Autosegmental Phonology, French as Foreign language