The Patterns Of Indonesian Blend Words

Abstract

The writers try to research this field because it is very important to comprehend the patterns of Indonesian blend words. Some of people are still confused between Indonesian blend words and Indonesian acronyms. The aims of this research are to find out the patterns of Indonesian blend words and to find out the phonotactic patterns from every Indonesian blend words that are gotten. In this paper the writers use descriptive qualitative method as the method of the research. The source of the data is taken from Kompas newspaper. The result of the study shows that Indonesian blend words are divided into five terms and have 64 patterns. They are Indonesian blend word which consist of two words are 21 patterns, Indonesian blend word which consists of three words are 20 patterns, Indonesian blend word which consists of four words are 15 patterns, Indonesian blend word which consists of five words are 7 patterns and Indonesian blend word which consists of six words is 1 pattern. The writers found 108 phonotactic patterns from the sample of Indonesian blend words which has been analyzed. Each of Indonesian blend words has a phonotactic pattern.