Suprasegmental Features on Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential Candidate Debate

Abstract

This research deals with the analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential Candidate Debate. The objectives of the study were (1) to find out the levels of word stress used by Hillary Clinton in the debate. (2) to find out the function of word stress used by Hillary Clinton in the debate. The source of this research is final presidential candidate debate video on youtube and the script of Hillary Clinton from internet. Decriptive qualitative was applied to analyze Suprasegmental Features on Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential Candidate Debate that was focused on stress. There were four levels of word stress found on Hillary Clinton’s Address of the Final Presidential Candidate Debate, they were Primary Stress, Secondary Stress, Tertiary Stress, and Weak Stress. Then, the function of word stress found on Hillary Clinton’s Address in the debate were as a Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, Article, Negation, Quantifier, and Auxiliary Verb.