Psycholinguistics Study: an Apocope in Private Elementary School

Abstract

The research focused on apocope, a part of morphographemic changes, which occurred in elementary school students in Jakarta.  The author determined to identify: [1] How apocope is written by students, and [2] Which graphemes are commonly found to delete written words.The object of research that the author examined in this study is  the students’ handwriting..In carrying out this research, the authors used descriptive-qualitative research methods .Students created 8 apocopes when they added words like. The result of the research showed that the students created 8 apocopes , such as "ANT," "CAMEL," "CORN," "GRAPE,", “ORANGE”, “TIE”, “ELEPHANT” and "PANTS" and the graphemes that are commonly found in this research are consonant graphemes.