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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about first language acquisition of three-year-old
Indonesian children. The thesis writer focuses her study on the syntactic
structures produced by three-year-old Indonesian children in their utterances.
The writer tries to find out the syntactic structures by describing the categorical
and functional formulas of the children's utterances. In analyzing their
utterances, the writer tries to discover the general formulas that the children
follow in producing utterances.
In this study, the writer uses 10 weekly meetings every Sunday in a class
of three-year-old children in a Sunday School to get the samples from the
utterances of 20 children. Seen from the internal structure of the main clause,
the data used in this study contain perfect and imperfect sentences. As the next
stage, the samples in each of the two types of sentences are classified based on
the type of the sentences seen from the context and the answers or response
given to the sentences in a continuous discourse. For the perfect sentences, the
writer tries to figure out the functional and categorical formulas of the
sentences in each type of sentences. While for the imperfect sentences, the
writer draws out the categorical formula of each sentence in each type of
sentences.
The findings of this study show that the children produce simple
sentences in their utterances. They produce from one-word sentences to
complete simple sentences (the simple sentences that have the complete basic
elements of sentences). The result of the study also reveals that in each type of
sentences, the children produced utterances that follow certain general
formula(s). It is discovered that in each type of sentences, the constructions of
the children's utterances follow one or more general formulas.