The Early speech acts of two-year-old Chinese-Indonesian triplets - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This thesis aims to study language acquisition in pragmatics, especially in
early speech acts of two-year-old Chinese-Indonesian Triplets. The data were
gathered from the triplets who are the writer?s neighbor and they live with parents
and each has his/her own baby sitters who use the same language 'Jawa Timuran?
language and Indonesian language in daily life. There were four main theories that
were reviewed in this study: Children?s language development by Yule (1997),
Pragmatics by Yule (1996), Speech acts by Yule (1996), Early Speech Acts by
Clark, H.H. & Clark, E.V. (1977). From this research, the writer found that this
two-year-old triplets already use pragmatics especially early speech acts in their
daily communication, the writer found several differences of using speech acts of
these triplets. For the assertion to adults, Cliff used all of speech acts categories
but Lynn did not use assertion for quality of object and Glenn did not use
assertion for presence of object. For the request to adults, Lynn and Cliff used all
of them but Glenn did not use request for refusal. The writer also saw that the
using of speech acts of these triplets for the siblings also different. Cliff used
assertion and request while the other only used request to their siblings. Whether
or not gender influences the use of speech acts is not the scope of this research,
therefore, it is worth researching for in further research, such a the use of speech
acts of the twins/triplets to the adults especially their father and mother.

Contributor
• (88-011) Ester Harijanti Kuntjara
• (94-013) Julia Eka Rini

Subject
1. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
2. LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES-STUDY AND TEACHING

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 02011745/ING/2008; Shin Min Jung (11403075)
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