THE ACQUISITION OF SYNTACTICAL RELATION AMONG INDONESIAN CHILDREN OF 1.5-4 YEARS OLD WITH DIFFERENT PARENTS BACKGROUND EDUCATION
Dita Sofiah Nur (a*), Berlin Sibarani (b), Rahmad Husein (b)
a) English Applied Linguistics Study Program
Postgraduate School
State University of Medan, Indonesia
b) State University of Medan, Indonesia
Abstract
Sentence in the language acquisition context is the utterances of two or more words which has syntactical relation. Cattell (2002) states that it isnt until real two-word utterances begin so that we can say, syntactic (grammatical) constructions have started to form. According to Brown (1973) syntactical relation is the relation among constituent in a sentence. In line with this idea, the objective of this study is to describe the types of syntactical relations are acquired by Indonesian children. This study will use 12 types of syntactical relation. they are Agent Action, Agent Object, Agent Locative, Action Dative, Action Object, Action Locative, Agent Action Object, Agent Action Locative, Action-Dative-Object, Action-Object-Locative, Agent-Action-Object-Locative, Agent-Action-Dative-Object-Locative (Brown:1973). To get the data from this study, the researcher will use cross-sectional reserach design by taking 10 children with different group of ages and different parents background education as the source of data and their utterances which includes to the sentence as the data of this study.
Keywords: sentence acquisition, syntactical relation.
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education