Abstract:
This research aims to look at language variations that occur phonologically
and lexically in the Scouse dialect or Liverpool English in English and Tabulahan
dialect in Mamuju language.
Sources of the data for the Tabulahan dialect and Mamuju language were
obtained directly from the informants as native speakers of the Tabuhanan and
Mamuju languages. Meanwhile, the Scouse dialect and English data as a
comparison were obtained from previous research conducted by Honeybone (2007)
and Baranova (2015). The writer used a qualitative method through a
dialectological approach and contrastive analysis.
The results of this study show that there are similarities and differences.
Phonologically, similarities occur in the features of Vocal Change and Lenition.
The difference occurs in the features of the TH-stopping and the category of Rhotic
and non-Rhotic which the Tabulahan Dialect does not have this feature but is found
in the Scouse Dialect in English. Lexically, both dialects have variations in word
classes such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. While the differences occur
in other word class variations such as pronouns, prepositions, determinants,
conjunctions, numbers and question words which are only found in the Tabuhanan
dialect
