FIRST LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY ACQUISITION BY A TWO-YEAR-OLD MANDAILING CHILD

This thesis deals with First Language Phonology Acquisition by A Two Years Old Mandailing Child. This study focused on describing First Language Phonology Acquisition by A Two Year Old Mandailing Child. This study was located at Jl. Perjuangan kelurahan Bincar Padang Sidimpuan and the subject of this study was two years old. In collecting the data this study applied documentation with audio visual recorder as the instrument of data collecting. The technique of data analysis used in this study was interactive technique and the data was described through the process. A qualitative research was conducted to enable the researcher to answer the questions. There are three questions to be answered namely: (1) What phones are acquired by a two years old Mandailing child, (2) How does a two years old Mandailing child acquired the phonology production, (3) How are the phonology production of the words acquired by a two years old Mandailing child. Observation was carried out to Mandailing child twice a week for three month. The findings indicated that kinds of word are noun, adjective, verb and adverb and the most aspect of phonology found in this study is noun. The subject acquired the words through interaction with his family and sometimes used body language when he talked with his parents. The phonology production of the words acquired by the subject with several processes out of the twelve processes.