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This study discusses about the cross-linguistic influences of Malay from cartoons in Indonesian children’s language use at the home domain. Data were collected through recordings and field notes. Some steps based on the framework by Lacey and Luff (2007) was taken to analyze the data. The results of recording were transcribed, and then organized to select important data and to remove unnecessary ones. In familiarization, the recording and its transcription were re-checked. The last step was categorizing the data into cross-linguistic influences based on Ringbom (1987), which are borrowing, hybrids, phonetic influence and relexification. The results showed that only two aspects of cross-linguistic influences were found in data: borrowing and phonetic influences. Borrowing took place as the most frequent aspect that occurred in the data, followed by phonetic influence. Relexification and hybrid did not appear in the data. Nevertheless, there were other cross-linguistic aspects that were found in data, which are intonation, parenthetic remark, and interjection. In the broad-spectrum, the initial mimic on the Malay cartoon characters have expanded to employment in the language use of the children while speaking Indonesian. Thus, this study is expected in some ways or another to the development of sociolinguistics, especially in cross-linguistic influence in children’s language use. Indonesia and Malaysia are neighboring countries, and language contact between the two countries is inevitable and evident. Hence, the study on the influences can benefit sociolinguistics especially when investigating about language change in the future.

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