Jurnal Ilmiah Lingua Idea
Vol 13 No 2 (2022): December 2022

Acquisition of Phonological Competence in Five-Year-Old Mentally Disabled Children

Octaria Putri Nurharyani (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Indonesia)
Bivit Anggoro Prasetyo (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Indonesia)
Nila Mega Marahayu (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Indonesia)
Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Indonesia)
Widya Putri Ryolita (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2022

Abstract

This research aims at describing language acquisition particularly at the level of phonological competence attained by mentally retarded children. The data in this research are gathered from children, who is mentally retarded, at the Panti Asuhan Yatim Sejahtera Banjarnegara. These data include vocabularies which are primarily nouns, for instance the name of transportations, fruits, and buildings. This is a descriptive-qualitative research of which steps were giving stimuli to the targeted child to pronounce some vocabularies. These pronounced-vocabularies were then employed in this research to further be examined. In order to discover the stages of language acquisition specifically at the level of phonological competence, the data will be analyzed with phonetic syllabus. Based on the result of the analysis, it indicates that the language acquisition of this mentally disabled child phonologically pronounced vocoid [i], [I], [e], [«], [a], [u], [U], [o], [¿], and [\]; and contoid sounds [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g], [c], [j], [h], [l], [m], [n], [÷], [w]; while sounds such as [Ö], [s], [r], [z], [q], and [v] were not able to be pronounced. In short, the phonological stage of language acquisition by mentally disabled child was obtained but it was not fully acquired.This research aims at describing language acquisition particularly at the level of phonological competence attained by mentally retarded children. The data in this research are gathered from children, who is mentally retarded, at the Panti Asuhan Yatim Sejahtera Banjarnegara. These data include vocabularies which are primarily nouns, for instance the name of transportations, fruits, and buildings. This is a descriptive-qualitative research of which steps were giving stimuli to the targeted child to pronounce some vocabularies. These pronounced-vocabularies were then employed in this research to further be examined. In order to discover the stages of language acquisition specifically at the level of phonological competence, the data will be analyzed with phonetic syllabus. Based on the result of the analysis, it indicates that the language acquisition of this mentally disabled child phonologically pronounced vocoid [i], [I], [e], [«], [a], [u], [U], [o], [¿], and [\]; and contoid sounds [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g], [c], [j], [h], [l], [m], [n], [÷], [w]; while sounds such as [Ö], [s], [r], [z], [q], and [v] were not able to be pronounced. In short, the phonological stage of language acquisition by mentally disabled child was obtained but it was not fully acquired.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jli

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Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Ilmiah Lingua Idea ( ISSN: 2580-1066 (online) - ISSN: 2086-1877 (print)) is a peer-reviewed journal, published by Faculty of Humanities Universitas Jenderal Soedirman Purwokerto. It is an open access journal that can be accessed freely to support a greater knowledege exchange and sharing. ...