The Usage of Prefixes {me(N)-} and {nge-} in 4 Year- Old Children

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.062How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children, contexts, formal basic verbs, morpheme, prefixes

Abstract

Prefixes {me(N)-} and {nge-} in Indonesian are interesting to study because the prefixes {me (N)-} and {nge-} are allomorphs of two forms that represent a function. Our 4-year-old children are able to differentiate the use of prefix {me(N)-} and {nge}. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the use of the prefixes {meN-} and {nge-} in 4-year-old children, the variation of morpheme used by 4-year-old children in their communication, and the context that causes morpheme variations {meN-} and {nge-} in 4-year-old children. The method used in this research is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The data in this study are a combination of the results of interactions with participants and the children’s corpus. The data used in the form of morphemes when the children talk and play. Those are obtained by recording all the children’s activities. The recording is transcribed and classified according to the purpose of the study. The findings in this study show that the use of the prefixes {me(N)-} and {nge-} in 4-year-old children vary as much as adults regardless of the very low productivity of each child. Besides, the general findings in this study show that 4-year-old children use formal basic verbs frequently to communicate. The contexts that cause variations in morpheme {me (N) -} and {nge-} are settings and participants.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lucia Ika Linawati
AU  - Eri Kurniawan
AU  - Dadang Sudana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - The Usage of Prefixes {me(N)-} and {nge-} in 4 Year- Old Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 396
EP  - 399
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.062
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.062
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