Difficulties in the Pronunciation of English Language of Law Students in Relation to Gender

This research paper basically deals with qualitative and quantitative study through acoustics and phonemic analysis. The researcher has endeavoured to find out the difficulties in the pronunciation of English words of law students of Ambala district. . English being a global language has gained prestigious position in this world. This has increased competition among people not only within the country but even outside the country too. In such a competitive world, pronunciation is the most indispensable component of speaking skill. Since the purpose of this study was to identify the deviations in monosyllabic, bi-syllabic and multisyllabic words from RP (Received Pronunciation). It is a data-based study for which their voice samples were recorded through PRAAT and analysed in terms of Time, Pitch and Intensity. The term gender has been divided in two parts: boys and girls. Besides this, to know the level of significance, in reference to the hypothesis, conclusions were drawn by applying Independent T-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).