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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research is a study about child's language
acquisition, in which the main focusses of this study
themselves are concentrated on the analysis of phonological
process of the word and the analysis of semantic
relation of the words in utterances.
Realizing that there are various kinds of theory
of child's language acquisition, it is interesting to
know whether the theory of phonological process proposed
by David Ingram and theory of semantic relation of the
word proposed by Roger Brown in general can also be
applied on an Indonesian child or not.
This research uses a two year-old boy as the
subject. The set of the data collections are gathered by
recording the conversation between subject, his mother,
and the writer. The second data collection is making
note of the subject spontaneous utterances to get his
words as many as possible.
The first method of analysis is making a list of the
subject's word in an alphabetical order. Then, from the
list above the writer does analyze those words using
Ingram's phonological procceses theory. After that she continues with Brown's semantic relations. She grouped
the two word utterances data into each eight semantic
relations. Then, she begins with three word sentences
and more than three word sentences.
The result of this study shows that some of In-gram's
phonological processes which conveys substitution,
assimilation, and syllable structure procces also
done by the subject of research. Besides, he also practised
Brown's semantic relations. He combined those
eight semantic relations in his three word utterances
and more than three word utterances creatively.
As an addition, there are also some findings which
shows that in his age of two, the subject's language is
developed syntactically. He is able to produce sentences
with negatives, sentences with preposition,
interrogative sentences with question words, and
sentences with conjunction.
Finally, the writer concludes that both of two
theories; phonological process theory and semantic
relations theory are applicable on a two year old Indonesian
child's speech.