LING 4P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter .: White Matter, Ontogeny, Embodied Cognition
26 Feb 2016
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Argument against the comparative fallacy, or the deeply problematic practice of taking the. 3 critiques: idealized competence of native speakers as the golden benchmark for investigating linguistic development in an additional language having broad impact on other disciplines that study language ontogeny. Proposal of multicompetence which addressed the need for a holistic bi/multilingual prism when investigating late lang learning, while also loudly and clearly denouncing the deficit approach dominant in sla. The accusation that aprevalent target deviation perspective thwarts the fields potential for. The monolingual bias rests on a number of implicitly held beliefs about the nature of lang, monolingualism, bilingualism and nativeness. Native speaker is used to denote a language uer who had exposure by birth but is also monolingual. Nonnative speaker possesses a derivative and approximative kind of linguistic competence, one that betrays itself in detectable traces of other languages during language use. By making it unnecessary to even express overtly the adjective monolingual in the native.
