Phonological Study of Onomatopoeia JELTL (Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics), 6(1), 2021 211 JELTL (Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics) e-ISSN: 2502-6062, p-ISSN: 2503-1848 2021, Vol. 6(1) www.jeltl.org doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21462/jeltl.v6i1.519 Phonological Study of Onomatopoeia in Children’s Song Nuri Ma’rifatil Laili Universitas Negeri Malang e-mail: lili.rui28@gmail.com Fauzana Putri Universitas Negeri Malang e-mail: fauzana.putri@gmail.com Abstract This paper aims to observe the phonological features of onomatopoeia in children’s songs which contribute to foreign language acquisition. The study is a descriptive qualitative involving 24 full-time mothers who introduce English to their toddlers through various English songs. Data were collected through digital questionnaires followed up by semi-structured interviews to clarify what the parents had answered in the digital questionnaire. The study reveals numerous onomatopoeic words that acquired by the toddlers because of some factors, 1) the similarities of phonological features between English and Indonesian onomatopoeic words, and 2) the large quantities of language input in their listening habit. Keywords: Onomatopoeia, Children’s Song, Phonological features 1. INTRODUCTION Onomatopoeia, naming objects that imitate their sound, seems to be an interesting topic to discuss because all people know many onomatopoeic words since they were born without knowing the existence of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is considered as most noticeable in babies' earliest words (Laing, 2019) as it has simple features and forms. The ability on identifying the phonemes since the babies are in their first month, makes them start to produce their first sound by cooing between six to eight weeks and then babbling by using repeated syllables over and over, such as “maa maa, baa baa”,