THE ACQUISITION OF INDONESIAN DECLARATIVE SENTENCE BY FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN

This thesis dealt with the Acquisition of Indonesian Declarative Sentence by the Four-Year-Old Children. This Study focused on discovering the patterns of the declarative sentences by two year-old children. This study was located in Pandan, Tapanuli Tengah. The subjects of the study were two-year-old children. There were three questions to be answered namely: (1) what types of declarative sentence structure are produced by the children? (2) which types of declarative sentence structure dominantly produced by the children? (3) why does the four-year old children develop Indonesian declarative sentence structure the way they do? A descriptive qualitative research was conducted to enable the researcher to answer the questions. The finding indicated that from total 20 declarative sentences of each, they had different patterns of each category. The patterns of the declarative sentences in terms of syntactic form be spoken by the four-year-children. In the running pattern MW has patterns, S-P-Adv, P-S, Adv-S-P, P-S-Adv, S-P-Adv, Adv-S-P. Meanwhile RHB has patterns, P-S, Adv-Adv-S-P, P-S, P. In the being pattern, MW has patterns, S-P and P-S, however, RHB has patterns S-P, P-S, P, Adv-Adv-S-P and Adv-S-P. In the doing pattern, MW has patterns, P-O-Adv-S, S-P-O, P-O-Adv-S, Adv-P-O-Adv and S-P-O. Meanwhile RHB has patterns S-Adv-P-O, S-P-O, O-S-P, Adv-P-O.