Contrastive Analysis of Onomatopoeic Use in Nursery Rhymes as Children’s Environmental Sounds Recognition in Japanese and Indonesian

Nursery rhymes play a role in children’s language development and help them recognize express the environmental sounds or around them. Onomatopoeia imitation words are often found nursery rhymes. Every country has different language, so it phonetic to onomatopoeia. In this research, author will contrast onomatopoeic use Japanese Indonesian The theory classification of onomatopoeia used research combinations proposed by Akimoto (2002) Kaneda (1978). This qualitative listening note-taking methods from Youtube videos. analysis data referential matching method. result shows that rhymes, is sound nature, an object, human, animal, object condition, movement, human animal emotion found. Meanwhile, found, almost all types except for class not