THE ACQUISITION OF NOUNS BY THREE-YEAR OLD INDONESIAN CHILDREN

This thesis deals with The Acquisition of Nouns by Three-Year-Old Indonesian
Children.This study focused on describing the acquisition of Nouns by Three-Year-Old
Indonesian Children. This study was located at Husni Thamrin,Mutiara,Kisaran
City,Sumetera Utara and the subjects of this study were three-Year-Old children, namely DI
and KA. In collecting the data, this study applied observation and interview. The technique of
data analysis used in this study was descriptive technique and the data were descibed through
the process of transcribing. A qualitative research was conduted to enable the researcher to
answer the quesitions. The findings indicated that the subjects acquired all 4 kinds of nouns,
such as Human, animal,vegetations and things. The subject acquired Indonesian words
through their interaction with their family members and friends when they play. DI acquired
nouns well and he can produced it fluently, however KA acquired the nouns by repeating,
ommition, and subtitution and even sometimes researcher could not understand what she said.
KA did not speak fluently, however DI speak very fluent and clear. KA did some repeatation,
ommision and substitution and DI speak well. Parents play the main role as going them to do
and produce the right ones.when parents did something wrong, then children were doing it so.
DI’s parents always teach him to speak clearly but not for KA’S parents.