DEVIASI FONOLOGIS TUTURAN BAHASA INDONESIA ANAK

Abstract

This article explains the phonological deviations in Indonesian utterances
of children with the age range from 1.0 to 2.6, which represents a stage of language
development with the children of the age range from 1.0 to 1.6 producing their first
single-word utterances (SWU), those of the age range from 1.6 to 2.0 producing
their first word combinations (FWC), and those of the age range from 2.0 to 2.6
producing their first simple and complex sentences (SCS). The data show that 11
phonological deviation patterns are found in SWU, 13 phonological deviation
patterns are found in FWC, and 7 phonological deviation patterns are found in
SCS. On the basis of these available patterns, it could be stated that (1) the most
productive patterns are stopping, gliding, nasalizing, and cluster reduction, (2) the
deviation patterns tend to decrease as age increases, (3) as children get older, the
reduplication pattern is abandoned and the deletion pattern decreases, and (4) a
lateralization pattern occurs when children begin producing SCS. Most of the
patterns are universal since they also occur in the utterances of subjects of other
researchers.
Keywords : patterns of phonological deviations, children utterances, underlying
representation, phonetic representation, SWU, FWC, SCS