LANGUAGE VARIATION ON A CHILD’S SPEECH IN MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY (CASE STUDY OF 12 YEARS OLD CHILD IN A FAMILY IN BANDUNG CITY)

Abstract

Abstract: Purpose of the study is to know language variations on child's speech. Subject of the research is a child, an active Indonesian speaker, from a family in Bandung city. Both parents are from the Javanese and Sundanese tribes, both of whom have their own mother tongue, namely Javanese and Sundanese. The child uses Indonesian in his daily speech. One of the factors is both of his parents actively speak in Indonesian, although sometimes interspersed with Sundanese and English. The method of collecting data is simak libat cakap and participant observation. The results obtained are that these five variations appear with various background factors. Dialect variations began to be used in line with the development of his age towards adolescents, so the acquisition of the language has begun to show its uniqueness. Dialect is an inevitable part because the environment of speakers who still use the native language, namely Sundanese, although it does not dominate the speech. The level of speech used is still not used to follow the rules in force, such as using polite language when talking to his parents. This situation is very possible to occur due to environmental factors that do not support the use of speech levels at the time of speaking. Variety of languages including formal and informal variety, can already be distinguished by speakers both consciously or not.