SAR SH 524 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Simultaneous Bilingualism, Second-Language Acquisition, Heritage Language
21 Apr 2019
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A lot of people in us are bilingual. Simultaneous bilingualism occurs when a child learns multiple languages from birth. Sometimes, the child"s parents (or other family caretakers) may speak different languages. Sometimes the home language and community language differ. Sequential bilingualism occurs when a child begins to acquire another language after acquisition of the rst language is well under way. Frequency with immigration: if the parents speak the native language of their home country, this is the child"s heritage language and is often a minority language in the new culture. Can also happen when children learn a second language at school. Around the world, bilingualism is very common, perhaps even more common than monolingualism. However, for many reasons, the scienti c study of language development has mostly focused on monolingual development. Studies of language development in immigrant populations. The focus was usually on children"s development of the majority language.
