A Study of a two-year-old Indonesian child's language acquisition in its syntactic structures - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This project is a psycholinguistic study about the
child language acquisition in which the main focus of this
study is concentrated on kinds of sentences such as simple
affirmative sentence, negative sentence, interrogative
sentence that require yes or no as an answer, interrogative
sentence with question word, passive sentence, imperative
sentence, and request sentences produced by a two year old
Indonesian child in his one-word sentences up to more than
three word sentences and the syntactic patterns in making
those sentences.
This research uses one subject in which his utterances
were recorded for two hours weekly for approximately five
months and the mother was present in all recording
sessions. The data were transcribed and grouped into
variation of words namely one-word sentences, two-word
sentences, three-word sentences and more than three word
sentences. The data is analyzed based on each variations of
words and the result reveals that the subject has specific
patterns in making those sentences such as he utters only
the essential word which is mostly the last word of the
adult model sentence and in answering the interlocutors'
questions with choises he also tends to choose the last
choice. In addition, even though not all of the subject's
utterances at this time work like by adult standart, there
has been considerable achievement for a child who was not
yet three.

Contributor
• (76-012) Josefa Juniarti Mardijono
• (88-011) Ester Harijanti Kuntjara

Keyword
psycholinguistic, child language acquisition, syntactic structures, language development, pivot word

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

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 509; Lianny Ingrid Wijaya (11492124)
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