LING 3P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metalinguistic Awareness, Simultaneous Bilingualism, Language Transfer
19 Mar 2018
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Children exposed to 2 languages from birth or before the age of 3. Children who learn a second language after the age 3. Initially children have one language system that combines two languages. One lexical system contains words in both languages and one set of language rules. Eventually they separate lexicons but still only have one set of rules. By age 3 they have two separate language system. Kids separate languages they are learning right from the beginning and they each develop uninfluenced by the other. Kids separate languages from birth but development in one languages influences the other. 4. 5 months of age the child can tell two languages apart. At 14-17 months, some french-english bilingual children can distinguish english contrasts and french contrasts; but some can only distinguish one language or the other. Could be because one language is more dominant in input. 10-14 month old french-english bilingual babies babbled like monolingual french babies (evidence for fusion)
