Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017)

Syntactic Simplicity in Dyslexic Children's Utterances

Authors
Mr Mulyono, Ketut Artawa, Prima Asteria
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Available Online October 2017.
DOI
10.2991/soshec-17.2018.54How to use a DOI?
Keywords
simplicity, syntactic structures, dyslexia
Abstract

As kids suffering from language deficits, dyslexic children have unique linguistic characterisitics. This research aims to examine syntactic simplicity in dyslexic childrens utterances. The data was collected through observation, audio taping, and elicitation whereas a minimalist theory was employed to analyze the syntactic simplicity and to formulate its principles. The research findings suggest that children with dyslexia tend to produce short sentences, and ellipsis, as well as demonstrate inaccurate use of kata tugas preposition, conjunction, interjection, relative pronouns and word order. In some cases, certain syntactic structures commonly used by normal children of the same age were not found in dyslexic childrens utterances. This indicates that dyslexic childen have yet to acquire all syntactic structures, particularly complex ones. The syntactic simplicity in dyslexic childrens utterances can be observed from the use of verbs. As a core constituent of a sentence, verbs seem to have been perceived and used differently by children with dyslexia. The verb mandi for example, is perceived as simpler than the verb membuat so that it is more easily understood and appropriately used in a sentence. Similarly, the verb membuatkan is perceived as more complicated than membuat with the result that the former is often used inaccurately in a sentence

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Volume Title
Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-490-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/soshec-17.2018.54How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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