The Representation of Vocoid q?q in Indonesian Phonological Development of Preschool Aged Children with Hearing Impairment

Abstract

This study aims to describe the representation of vocoid [əә] phonological developments in the Indonesian language on deaf preschool-age children. Therefore, the collection of data is done longitudinally. A data source is a group of three deaf children TKLB-B (Nursery School of Students with Special Needs) who had the mild, moderate, and severe degrees of the deaf, and who did not have multiple impairments. The data is in the form of utterance that is capable of giving vocoid representation [əә] of deaf preschool-age children. The data collected by using observation, fishing, logging, and recording techniques. The collected data are then analyzed by sorting, reversals, and connections techniques. Based on the results of the study, there were four representations of vocoid [əә] phonological developments in the Indonesian language on deaf preschool-age children; (1) indeed, they used the word contain vocoid [əә], (2) they used it to replace the other vocoid, (3) along with vocoid [a] it formed a diphthong [aəә], (4) they used it to replace the sound on syllable of the end of a word.