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Conversation Stations and Children First Language Acquisition: A Case Study of a Four-Year-Old Child*

Abstract— Talking meaningfully and listening attentively to a child can be challenging for some. The practices, however, are pivotal to have children develop linguistically. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to study the impact of the implementation of conversation stations on a child language acquisition. This is qualitative research which aims to explain a child’s linguistic phenomenon. The linguistic aspects studied were designed in basic mental entities, covering naming objects, attributes and modifier, event, and attribute, modifier, and evaluation of the event. A four year and two-month old child as a participant engaged in the conversation stations and his utterances were noted for data selection and data analysis. This was helpful to recognize, identify, analyze, and draw a conclusion about how the child language acquisition was influenced by the implementation of the conversation stations. The current research demonstrates that the child is able to name the obj

Inflection dan Suppletion dalam Morphology

  Berikut penjelasan tentang Inflection dan Suppletion dalam ilmu Morphology.  INFLECTION Fungsi dari sebuah kata didasarkan pada susunannya dalam kalimat. Susunan ini kemudian mempengaruhi pola kata dalam kalimat itu sendiri. Kata-kata yang mengalami affiksasi menunjukkan fungsi serta kelas kata (part of speech). Inflectional menunjukkan variasi struktur kata yang tidak mempengaruhi kelas kata, akan tetapi karena kebutuhan struktur kalimat, maka kata tersebut berprilaku menyesuaikan dengan syarat tersebut. Gagasan tersebut dapat dicontohkan pada kalimat berikut:  The clown entertains the children impressively. The clown is entertaining the children impressively. The entertainment is particularly impressive. Kata entertains pada kalimat a mengalami afiksasi (-s), sebagaimana juga pada kalimat b (-ing). Kalimat a dan b memiliki pola kalimat yang sama dimana perubahan kata yang mengalami afiksasi tersebut tidak mempengaruhi kelas kata. Kata entertain (kata