Syntactical Relation Acquired by 1.5-4.0 Years Old Indonesian Children with Different Parent’s Educational Background

The aim of this research was to find out 1) the types of syntactical relations are acquired by children of 1.5-4 years old, 2) the stages of children of 1.5-4 years old in acquiring types of syntactical relation, and 3) the reasons of children of 1.5-4 years old in acquiring types of syntactical relation like they do. The data sources of this research were 10 Indonesian children in five group of ages ranging from 1.5-4.0 years old with different parents’ educational background. This research was conducted in descriptive qualitative with cross-sectional research design. The data of this research were types of syntactical relations which were drawn from the subjects’ utterances in sentence which were collected by passive-participant observation where interview and field note as its instrument, for later were analyzed by using interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana. The results of this research 1) Types of syntactical relation was divided into declarative sentence and interrogative sentence. In this research, Indonesian Children have acquired 12 types of declarative sentence. They are Agent-Action, Agent-Locative, Action-Dative, Action-Object, Action-Locative, Introducer-X, Nominal-Locative, Nominal Attributive, Attributive Nominal, Possessor-Possessed, Agent-Action-Object, Agent-Action-Locative. Then 5 types of syntactical relation in interrogative sentence. They are Subject Nominal, Object Nominal, Predicate, Locative Adverbial, Manner Adverbial. 2) Ten children which are divided into 5 stages in this research, only 4 stages which have the development for types of syntactical relation, and there is one stage did not have the development acquisition of syntactical relation types. 3) The factor was affected children acquired types of syntactical relation was parents educational background. From the parents’ educational background perspective, the acquisition of syntactical relation is affected by 2 factors. They are number of input and complexity level of sentences.