Telegraphic Speech: Purposes and Semantic Relations



Mohammad Halili
Universitas Trunojoyo Madura 

Penelitian ini dipublikasikan pada Jurnal Prosodi: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Universitas Trunojoyo Madura, Vol. 11. No. 1, Hal. 23-31, 2017, ISSN: 1907-6665

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Abstract:
This is to study the telegraphic speech produced by twenty two months old baby boy. Not only revealing two-word utterances potentially expressed, but also identifying the variety of purposes and semantic relations of the given utterances would be the case of this inquiry. Since most of researchers share a common view to which children in that stage, not confined to English speaking countries, but worldwide as well, are able to make more sense sentences. It is linguistically characterized by the most essential words, delivered in a very compressed style to get the message across, and even syllable deletion. This current investigation thus plays a significant role to look at how the existing theoretical framework and speaking data are presumably interwoven. Utilizing the observation and note taking techniques, the required data was collected. They allow us to selectively identify the telegraphic speech that the children develop and to guard them from lost. It was one week data collection, undertaken from 19th to 25th March, 2017. The child’s play session was a dominant part of the research activities where the data gathered. The study demonstrates that he shows his ability in producing the telegraphic speech with recognized purposes and a variety of semantic relations. Purposes cover request, invitation, information, and imperative. Additionally, semantic relations deal with verb-object and social marker, verb.    

Keywords: telegraphic speech, acquisition, utterances

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