PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Jean Berko Gleason, Metalinguistic Awareness, Code-Switching
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Heritage lg: the lg of the culture in which child is born in. Minority lg: not the lg used in government. Sequential bilingualism: occurs when a second lg is introduced after the acquisition of a first lg is well under way. Achievement gap: btwn lg minority and monolingual children. Terms used to refer to the situation in which a child is exposed to two lgs from the very beginning of lg development. Language differentiation: how and when do children in dual lg enviros know that they are being exposed to two different lgs and whether they build two separate lg systems in their heads or one undifferentiated system. Sucking rate experiment demonstrates that infants born into bilingual enviro like to listen to the lf or lgs they have been exposed to prenatally and hearing two lgs doesn"t interfere with the ability to tell them apart. Bilingually exposed infants are establishing language-specific categories: could be a u- shaped course of development.
