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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research is an extraordinary one since the writer uses a Madurese
child who lives in a bilingual circumstance. The writer wants to conduct a
research on the morphological acquisition since Wanner and Gleitman
(1982) mention that the morphological analysis is rather late, it is variable
in the linguistic population (p. 12). Besides, as far as I know there had
never been done an investigation on the morphological acquisition of an
Indonesian child by any Petra Christian University pre-graduates. This
investigation is done to find out the child's noun words, syllabic structure
patterns, and morphological processes during fourteen weeks period of
recorded time. The writer uses Chomsky's theory as her foundation of
how a child acquires his or her first language. The theory of morphology
is taken from Language Files by Godby and Language Universals and
Linguistic Typology by Bernard Comry. And, the theory of Indonesian
and Madurese syllabic structure patterns are taken from Pedoman Umum
Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia vang Disempurnakan by Pamungkas and Kamus
Bahasa Madura-Indonesia by Safioedin. Meanwhile, the related studies
are taken from Dardjowidjojo (1995) in PELLBA 9 and Indariyah (1997),
an under graduate student's thesis of Petra Christian University, in A Case
Study of the Grammatical Acquisition Focused on Word Order of a Two-and
-a half-year-old Indonesian Child. The findings show that Siddik, as a
Madurese child who lives in a bilingual environment, produces more
Indonesian nouns than Madurese nouns. The nouns are usually begin with
vowels like inu for pintu, om 'ok for lombok and ambut for rambut. And,
he uses several morphological processes.