LING1901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Pragmatics, Linguistic System, Linguistic Imperialism
16 May 2018
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LING1901 LECTURE 23
BILINGUAL ACQUISITION
-Focus
•Children who grow up learning two languages simultaneously
•Two languages acquired from early on = Bilingual First Language Acquisition
•Not concerned with cases where the child acquires one language and then a second one is introduced
-Made up example: Ricky
•Ricky grew up speaking both English and Spanish at home in Australia
•Mother born and raised in Madrid, Spain (monolingual Spanish speaking parents)
•Father born and raised in Perth, Australia (monolingual English speaking parents)
•Complex to generalise from findings in this field because every child is surrounded by completely different
language history
-Bilingual First Language Acquisition
•BFLA is the learning of both languages in a naturalistic setting, in which both the formal aspects and social
conventions of the languages must be acquired
-Referred to as ‘acquisition’ because it is spontaneous and relatively effortless
•What is meant by formal aspects?
-Phonological properties of both languages
-How the morphological system works
-How sentences are constructed (syntax)
-How meaning is encoded (syntax)
-How discourse is constructed (pragmatics)
-Fully acquired by around age 3-4
•What is meant by social conventions?
•At around age 4 children develop a Theory of Mind
-That people think differently than they do
•Children learn how formal aspects interact with society
-Sociolinguistic aspects of language use
•Not fully acquired until age 20—22
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Document Summary
Focus: children who grow up learning two languages simultaneously, two languages acquired from early on = bilingual first language acquisition, not concerned with cases where the child acquires one language and then a second one is introduced. Bilingual first language acquisition: bfla is the learning of both languages in a naturalistic setting, in which both the formal aspects and social conventions of the languages must be acquired. Fully acquired by around age 3-4: what is meant by social conventions, at around age 4 children develop a theory of mind. That people think differently than they do: children learn how formal aspects interact with society. Sociolinguistic aspects of language use: not fully acquired until age 20 22. The wug test: shows children being productive with language using made-up words. Settings where bfla takes place: minority language spoken by parent(s)/care-givers at home while majority language spoken in the community.
