Syntactic Simplicity in Dyslexic Children's Utterances
- DOI
- 10.2991/soshec-17.2018.54How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- simplicity, syntactic structures, dyslexia
- Abstract
As kids suffering from language deficits, dyslexic children have unique linguistic characterisitics. This research aims to examine syntactic simplicity in dyslexic childrens utterances. The data was collected through observation, audio taping, and elicitation whereas a minimalist theory was employed to analyze the syntactic simplicity and to formulate its principles. The research findings suggest that children with dyslexia tend to produce short sentences, and ellipsis, as well as demonstrate inaccurate use of kata tugas preposition, conjunction, interjection, relative pronouns and word order. In some cases, certain syntactic structures commonly used by normal children of the same age were not found in dyslexic childrens utterances. This indicates that dyslexic childen have yet to acquire all syntactic structures, particularly complex ones. The syntactic simplicity in dyslexic childrens utterances can be observed from the use of verbs. As a core constituent of a sentence, verbs seem to have been perceived and used differently by children with dyslexia. The verb mandi for example, is perceived as simpler than the verb membuat so that it is more easily understood and appropriately used in a sentence. Similarly, the verb membuatkan is perceived as more complicated than membuat with the result that the former is often used inaccurately in a sentence
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mr Mulyono AU - Ketut Artawa AU - Prima Asteria PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - Syntactic Simplicity in Dyslexic Children's Utterances BT - Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 268 EP - 272 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/soshec-17.2018.54 DO - 10.2991/soshec-17.2018.54 ID - Mulyono2017/10 ER -