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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this study, the writer investigated the types of codes and linguistic
categories in each code used by a six-year-old-multilingual child. The theory of
code by Wardhaugh (2006), bilingualism and multilingualism by Weinreich
(1968), Wolfson (1989), Hoffmann (1991), Altarriba and Heredia (2008),
linguistic categories by Labov (1973), Ehrlich and Murphy (1976), Newby
(1987), Li & Thompson (1989), Zhao (1991), Taylor (2003), Kessler and
McDonald (2004), Swan (2005), and Chaer (2006) as well as descriptive approach
were used in this research. Fifty utterances were analyzed. The result of the
analysis showed that the child used Indonesian (68,63%), Mandarin (29,41%), and
English (1,96 %) codes. Also, it was found that the number of occurrences of
linguistic categories in word level was 15,72%, in phrase level 30%, in dependent
clause level 7,14%, and in sentence level 47,14%. The child did not express any
English words, Indonesian adverb and preposition phrases, Mandarin adjective,
adverb and preposition phrases, and English phrases. The child did not express
independent clause in each code either.