Phonological acquisition in children aged 2;2 (psycholinguistic study)

Abstrak

This study is to analyze the acquisition of phonology, especially the acquisition of vowels in a child named Giwaldo Siburian, aged 2:2 (2 years 2 months). The method used is a descriptive qualitative method to describe the vowel sounds mastered by the respondents studied. Data were collected through recording techniques, note-taking techniques, and listening to conversation techniques, and analyzed through the stages of transcribing spoken language into written language, sorting out transcribed data, in the form of vowel acquisition and simplification processes, classifying data, interpreting data, analyzing and concluding data. The results of the study showed that children aged 2:2 have been able to pronounce vowel sounds [a, e, i, o, and u] perfectly. The simplification process is carried out by children predominantly with the aim that children can pronounce vowel sounds well. The first simplification process carried out is the omission process, which is the disappearance of complex sounds at the beginning of words, then the assimilation process replaces complex sounds with simple sounds, and the substitution process replaces complex or simple sounds that are easy to pronounce, and combines the two simplification processes. The results of this study have a positive impact on psycholinguistic learning, especially the topic of phonological acquisition.