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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is a field research about twelve- year
old mentally retarded children in Surabaya, in acquir-ing
Indonesian language as their first language.
Phoneme is the smallest distinctive unit of language
that is represented by a vowel or consonant. Phonemes
are combined to form morpheme, the unit of meaning in
obtained from the recorded data of the three children
of mentally retarded. From the analysis, the phonolog-ical
disorder found in the retarded children words are
drawn. At the conclusion, the study shows, that the
children acquired a language not in the same level,
although they are all in the same age. The children
also show the variation of language acquisition as the
result of an innate of a person.
language. The way the children acquire the language is
an interesting field to study. Moreover, it will
become more interesting to study the language acqui-sition
of the mentally retarded children. The retarded
children, however, need some more time to acquire the
language and it is usually called as delayed language
development. In this study, the researcher chooses the
mentally retarded children because she has curi-ousity
to know the language acquisition of the retard-ed
children. Normal children, most of them, have com-pleted
the greater part of the basic language acquisi-tion
prosess by the age of five, and many subtle
refinement are added between the age of five and ten.
Thus, by adding two years older than a normal child,
a twelve- year old retarded child is not guaranteed
that he/she reaches the same level as a normal child.
This fact is also taken in order to answer the re-searcher's
curiousity of what are the phonemes that
the retarded children have acquired in twelve - year
old. Moreover, the researcher chooses only three child-ren
to observe because she just has a limited time and
for the validity of the data. In collecting the data,
the researcher uses pictures as the tool since the
children can not read or write. By doing that, the
researcher can get their interest and it is helpful
to get the data. This study uses linguistics theories
as the underlying theories. Hence, the analysis and
interpretation of findings are based on the use of
language, Indonesian language, which is limited on the
phonological disorder. The data for the analysis are