PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Language Processing In The Brain, Taxi 2, Procedural Memory
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How would you define a bilingual person: someone who speaks two languages, someone who may only understand one language but can speak another language -> able to engage in both languages. Bilingualism: we"ll be talking about a wide variety of levels of bilingualism, from since-birth bilinguals to late bilinguals and from active bilinguals to serial bilinguals. Serial bilingual: use one language all the time, use another language occasionally. 2 ways to link about the relationship between l1 and l2. Know words in your first language then associate words from your second language. research starts with picture naming. In conceptual level, an idea related to words and labels in l1. The way you deal with l1 is to associate with l2. Concept mediation model: you don"t have a direct connection your l1 and l2, instead is between the first labels in mediated in concepts: you have a word in l1 and a word in l2.
