The Characteristics of
a Mother’s
Child-directed Speech
Used to Her Two-year-old Daughter
(A Case Study)
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Sastra
KISMIYATI
392014505
ENGLISH LITERATURE PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Everybody has their own story created by The Almighty God. I am so
grateful because Jesus Christ has been making my story happened on the right
time, no sooner or later. My deep thanks to my lovely husband, Kris Apriyanto,
who provides me all kinds, love and spirit; to my pride son, Kiankri Arjuna
Pradipta, who is growing along with this thesis process; to Kusno and Kasbin big
family who always support and pray for my best; and Mrs. IK as my subject. I
also thankful to Bu Arien as my thesis advisor for the guidance and worthy
advices; Bu Debbi and Bu Esri as my examiners for the inputs to complete this
thesis, all of the lectures who have shared a lot of useful knowledge, especially
Pak Toar (Yes Sir, sabar (exactly) pangkal lulus.) and Bu Rindang (Semangat!!!);
and then to Mbak Yanti, Mbak Pris, and Pak War for your value information.
Finally, many thanks to all my friends in ex-STiBA SW, Opah Wawan
(for the Sony, Kuda, days and nights), Niyul’s Sony, Yu Santi, Yenol, Brindil,
Bang Jay, Pakde Tri, and others who cannot be mentioned one by one for our
unforgettable togetherness. Life is a struggle and there is no life without a struggle
guys. I do believe that this struggle is not over.
Salatiga, February 2015
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ABSTRACT
Children ability in language is influenced by several factors, internal and external factors. Internal factor refers to the children ability itself whereas the external factor mostly relates to the environment where the children grow. One of the important elements is the existence of a care taker as the guide and models of language for the children. In Indonesia society, especially in Javanese setting, mothers are found to be the common care taker. The subject is one of those mothers who has been helping her daughter to acquire language well. The language she used when communicate to her child (called motherese language or Child-directed Speech) actually displays certain characteristics to be learnt. They are substitution, both sounds/pronunciation substitution and pronoun substitution by proper names, accentuation by pausing between words or syllables within a word, the use of exaggerated sound intonation and high pitch, diminutives by familiar vocabularies, short grammatically structure, and repetition of the words or phrases as the main ideas. In addition, there are several new characteristics
which are appeared in the subject’s speech, i.e. sentences structure change,
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2.1.1. First Language Acquisition ... 5
2.1.2. Children Language Development ... 7
2.1.3. Child-directed Speech (CDS) ... 10
2.2. Related Studies ... 13
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD ... 15
3.1. Type of Research ... 15
3.2. Subject ... 15
3.3. Technique and Instrument of Data Collection ... 16
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4.1.5. Short Grammatically Structure ... 31
4.1.6. Repetition ... 32
4.2. Other Findings of characteristics ... 35
4.2.1. Sentence Structure Change ... 35
4.2.2. Developing Special Context-bound Vocabulary 36
