Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021)

'FROG, WHERE ARE YOU?': A STUDY ON BAHASA INDONESIA INTERFERENCE IN JAVANESE CHILDREN'S SPEECH

Dian Wahyunianto (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Nov 2021

Abstract

The coexistence of Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese has become an issue in the Javanese language preservation. Such strong contact is finally resulting in bilingual individuals in which language interference often occur. In this study, however, is aiming at describing how and why Bahasa Indonesia is interfering Javanese in Javanese children speech. By using task-based approach by Grosjean, this study manipulated language production in Javanese children using wordless narrative book Frog, Where Are You? created by Mercer Mayer. The results show that Bahasa Indonesia is interfering Javanese in phonic, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and even semantic aspects. Nevertheless, lexical level interference is the most noticeable interference since both language share quite similar structure. It is believed that, in sociolinguistics perspective, Bahasa Indonesia has gradually shift Javanese gradually. It is also seen that Javanese children with strong exposure of Bahasa Indonesia are eventually perceive more Bahasa Indonesia structure than Javanese.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

leksema

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra (Leksema: Language and Literature Journal) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on disseminating research results and conceptual works from language and literature fields of study by publishing them into scientific articles. The linguistic ...