First Language Acquisition of 1 Year Old Child

Abstract

This study deals with First Language Acquisition of 1 Year Old Child. The objectives of the study were to know the pronunciation of the 1 year old child and to find out the reason why the pronunciation of the language is less fluent and misunderstanding on meaning of the vowel of 1 year old child. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were obtained from the pronunciation and utterances of 1 year old child, named Zihan. This research investigated of first language acquisition of sentences that produced by 1 year old child in pronunciation, the factors that affect her in acquiring the first language acquisition and how the pronunciation process occurs in the first language acquisition. In conclusion, and from the results of the study showed that the language of 1 year old children have their respective variations in saying a certain word or sentence there is a dominant the front letter is removed, and 1 dominate letter in the alphabet A to Z or letters that have been removed in every pronunciation. The child is more often or dominate using the letter (t) such as: fish being (itan), eating being (atan), twins becoming translucent and asking to be (itak). This factor was caused of the lack of parent’s attention to the ability of children in a good language, lack of parent’s across the communication of the culture, lack of attention of parent’s in training the language of the children in the days and also the loss of communication for their family to the children.