THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORPHEME ACQUISITION AMONG THE CHILDREN OF 18-42 MONTHS

This research deals with the development of morpheme acquisition among the children of 18-42 months old in Sunday school children. The objectives of the research were to find out morphemes are acquired by the children 18-42 months old and how the children develop the acquisition of morpheme. This research conducted by the qualitative research. The data were obtained by the observation by recorded the utterances of the children by the conversation with the mother. The data collected were analyzed by interactive models of Miles and Huberman and Saldana. The location of the research was at Jl. Hangtuah No. 2 Medan. The subject of the research were 8 children of 18-42 months old. The result of the study are children at the age 18-23 months old acquired free morpheme with incomplete pronunciation, at the age 24-30 months acquired free morpheme with complete pronunciation, at the age 31-36 months bound morpheme with incomplete pronunciation, at the age 37-42 months children acquired Bound morpheme with complete pronunciation.