Baby Talk

Name; Diah Ripratiwi
SRN ; 0713042004

BABY TALK
Zahra is two years old. She was born in Bandar Lampung at 18th February, 2008. She is talk active children and friendly with other people around her.

Occasion 1
Activity : Zahra was playing with vegetable and her doll at her house.
Aunty : masak apa Zahra?
Zahra : masak pempe.
Aunty : tempe???
Zahra : masak…masak…(she tends to repeat her utterances when answer the question)
Aunty : masuk sayur apa?
Zahra : masak sayur
Aunty : sayur apa? (confirmation check)
Zahra : sayur bayem. (response)
Aunty : diapain bayemnya?
Zahra : di singkongin…..
Aunty : disingkongin,,bayemnya disingkongin. Bayemnya diapain?
Zahra : campu campu.
Aunty : di campur pake apa? (modification of output)
Zahra : hmmm….ibu
Aunty : kenapa ibunya?ibunya nakal ya?
Zahra : katanya suka .
Aunty : ini apa?
Zahra : ini anak
Aunty : anak apa?
Zahra : anak pekol. ( she meant a bad doll)
Aunty : pekol apa?
Zahra : ini.
Mother : boneka jelek (confirmation check)
Aunty : ooooo….warna apa?
Zahra : warna bibir.

Occasion 2
Activity :Show her photo with her father and her niece.
Father : ini Zahra.
Zahra : yang mana ya?
Father : Zahra ini.
Zahra : mana?
Niece : sini Zahra..
Zahra : mana?
Niece : ini siapa?
Zahra : Zahra.
Niece : Zahra dimana?
Zahra : Di satu ono.
( walk to her mother while hold her hand) poto…poto…
Mother : mau apa?
Zahra : poto…poto…
Mother : mba nina yang mana?
Zahra : poto…poto…
Mother : ko malah minta poto.
Aunty : Nyanyi geh?
Zahra : dasar kau keong racun ( while see the camera and express her song)

Occasion 3
Activity : Zahra playing at her niece’s house.
Zahra : adek….. (she meant a doll)
Niece : yang mana bonekanya?? (made it correct by question)
Zahra : yang…yang… adek.
Niece : warna?
Zahra : adek.
Niece : adek?
Zahra : Warna adek….warna ijo.Yang banyak aja lah, yang banyak
Niece : yang mana,semuanya?
Zahra : iya.
Niece : semuanya.
Zahra : muanyah. ( she tried to imitate the sounds and patterns which she heard).
Niece : apa ini?
Zahra : ayam ini.
Niece : bukan.
Zahra : ayam ini,,ini ayam.
Niece : bukan. Ini ikan. (confirmation check)
Zahra : ayam ini.

1. Explanation
When mother, father, and aunty talk to Zahra, they tend use a simple or shorter sentences. The speaking rate was slower and many repetition and correctness when Zahra spoke wrong. The dialogue which can do by Zahra is limited and more repetition. The sound which Zahra produced is limited.She tends to use simple sentences with simple grammatical structure. Her mother also, tends to use short sentence and tends to be slower whenever she speaks to Zahra; pauses tend to be more frequent and longer. These actions do in order to make Zahra know the message and maintain their conversation. Her mother and her aunt always make repetition with short question, and try to make Zahra know about the new words and the other words which she can’t talk correctly. Then after the mother or her aunt correct her words, she can imitate the true words. It seems that when Zahra imitate an utterances she have just heard, she usually change it, so that it conforms to the grammar she herself is operating at the time. For example in this dialogue :
Zahra : Warna adek….warna ijo.Yang banyak aja lah, yang banyak
Niece : yang mana,semuanya?
Zahra : iya.
Niece : semuanya.
Zahra : muanyah.


But, sometimes, when her niece make her words correct. She is resistant to correct the word;
Zahra : ayam ini.
Niece : bukan.
Zahra : ayam ini,,ini ayam.
Niece : bukan. Ini ikan.
Zahra : ayam ini.

In the daily communication, the children exactly Zahra likes to make new word. She create her own words. The people who know her word usually only her close family, likes people who often communicate with her. And the adults shouldn’t respond the words, they always try to make it correct when communicate with her. Her mother always try to know what is meant by her, it can be seen from this dialogue :
Zahra : ini anak
Aunty : anak apa?
Zahra : anak pekol. ( she meant a bad doll)
Aunty : pekol apa?
Zahra : ini.
Mother : boneka jelek.





2. Conclusion
From the above explanation, the following characteristics emerge :
1. Children go through stages.
2. These stages are very similar across children for a given language, although the rate at which individual children progress through them is highly variable.
3. These stages are similar across language.
4. Child language is rule governed and systematic, and the rules created by the child do not necessarily correspond to the adult ones.
5. Children are resistant to correction.
6. Children processing capacity limits the number of rules they can apply at any one time, and they will revert to earlier hypotheses where two or more compete.