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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about first language acquired by a two-and-a-half-year-old
Indonesian child. The focus is on word order of the utterances produced by the
child. The thesis writer analyzes the child's utterances, particularly the two-word
utterances and the three/more-word utterances. By combining words, the
child forms phrases and clauses/sentences. The writer tries to find some
evidences of growing complexity of the child's language over the four-month
period of observation.
This is a case study of a child whose utterances were recorded over a
period of four months. The data used in this research contain two to more than
two words in sequence. These were categorized based on word classes used.
The result of this study reveals that during the four-month period of
observation the child develops her language by constructing phrases and
clauses/sentences. As the time of study goes by, the child expands her
language not only her vocabulary but also in the length of constructions. The
thesis writer then concludes that there is a growing complexity
in the child's language development.