The Principles of Characteristic Noun Acquisition in Childern (Case Study: ARFAA)

Abstract

This research is motivated by the researchers‘ curiosity about the principles of the acquisition of noun words in children aged 6 years (Case Study: Arfaa). Aims to know of the lexical principles used in the acquisition of characteristic noun in children. There are several kinds of nouns, one of is characteristic noun, which the point of use is understand unique name of people, things, and places. This research started with observation activity to respondent who‘s 6 years old. After
observing the respondent, the researcher collects the data and processes the data using qualitative descriptive method, that is the method that describes the fact or fact according to the data obtained. This research is descriptive, meaning that the vocabulary that shows characteristic noun will become the main data of the research. The results of the study show the lexical principles used in the acquisition of characteristic noun are reference, extendibility, object scope, categorical scope, and novel-nameless category.