Acquiring social and linguistic competence: A study on morphological variation in Jakarta Indonesian preschoolers' speech

Bernadette Kushartanti, Hans Van De Velde, Martin Everaert

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Abstract

The present chapter discusses the acquisition of social and linguistic constraints by Jakarta Indonesian preschoolers. We examine the morphological aspects in two Indonesian varieties, namely Bahasa Indonesia (BI) and Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian (CJI), focusing on the use of transitivity and intransitivity marking verbal prefixes. Data in this study come from two periods of interviews in formal and informal settings with a six-month interval. Participants in this study are children of middle-class families (N = 63). We investigate whether they use BI prefixes and CJI prefixes appropriately in terms of situations and morphological rules. Findings in this study indicate that these children acquire the social and grammatical constraints at the same time in the informal situation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
EditorsAnna Ghimenton, Aurelie Nardy, Jean-Pierre Chevrot
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages103-128
Number of pages26
ISBN (Electronic)9789027259752
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameStudies in Language Variation
Volume26
ISSN (Print)1872-9592

Keywords

  • Constraints
  • Indonesian
  • Jakarta
  • Morphological variation
  • Preschoolers

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